Last week, Bryan and I took Nathan to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans for his annual checkup. His heart surgery to correct Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a problem connected to his Scimitar Syndrome, occurred about three years ago. The first year after surgery, appointments were a few months apart, but he has done well, [...]
Today’s Good Morning America covered an interesting story of a man with situs inversus (organs on the opposite side). Jack Eigel lived with this condition just fine until he required a heart transplant in his early 50s. The space for his new heart would be shaped differently, complicating an already difficult surgical procedure.
This interests me [...]
Nathan has the most unique anatomy in the family; but his sister, Michelle, has the most unique eyes in the family (Heterochromia).
This is one of the best illustrations I have found for explaining PAPVR.
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR) is a rare congenital heart defect in which blood flow from one or more of the pulmonary veins return to the right atrium instead of to the left atrium. This is a problem because the right atrium [...]
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When faced with a complicated congenital heart defect, confidence in the skill and expertise of your child’s surgeon is of paramount importance. When our son, Nathan, was diagnosed with Scimitar Syndrome, a rare condition characterized by dextrocardia, pulmonary hypoplasia, and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, we soon learned that our local surgeons had no personal [...]
