Children with valve defects face a lifetime of open heart surgeries - including three or more operations before high school graduation to repeatedly replace the tissue.
"This is a major limitation to our ability to provide ideal quality of life for children with these defects," said (Dr. Frank) Hanley, who is executive director of the Children's Heart Center at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto.
"It would make a dramatic difference in these children's lives if they could get one operation as a newborn and it would last forever."Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F06%2F01%2FMNP41DMBUQ.DTL#ixzz0pdUgUFg5
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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