It’s a game of millimeters. Working inside an infant’s tiny heart is complex. Now,access to a newly FDA-approved device is changing the outcome for some of the tiniest patients with abnormal heart valves. Before Avery Molina was born in December 2016, she was diagnosed with several heart defects – one was a malformed mitral valve. Dr Carl Backer, or Lurie Children’s heart surgeon: “She was born with inadequate valve tissue.” With each squeeze of the heart muscle,the mitral valve […]
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