when my phone rings and I see that the call is from "cardio" my heart always skips a beat. today it happened. Dr Mart was calling to tell me about how things went in surgery conference today when they talked about our little miss. They are still going forward with the bidirectional glenn on tuesday. They also discussed the concern they had with her aorta narrowing. That can be fixed two ways. One is during surgery but is makes things much more risky and the other is by placing a stent, to hold open her aorta, that will stay with her through life. It is a little wire mesh piece that is expanded by a balloon. They feel that the stent they will be able to place is an adult size that will be able to be expanded as she grows. Often they have to place a smaller one that she will outgrow. With the adult stent however, they will be able to slowly expand it over time with periodic cardiac caths every year or so until she stops growing. For the cath she will be sedated but it is a very noninvasive procedure.
If down the line this doesn't work the option of a surgical repair is still possible.
We will most likely be going in for the cath procedure on friday, with an overnight stay and then hopefully come back home on saturday and be home until the surgery on tuesday.
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