February is Heart Health Month, and a young Idaho boy is thriving because of a heart procedure gaining traction at Intermountain's Primary Children's Hospital.
, and a young Idaho boy is thriving because of a heart procedure gaining traction at Intermountain's Primary Children's Hospital.
The Ross Procedure is a complex surgery that treats a diseased aortic valve by replacing the valve with the patient's pulmonary valve and then replacing that pulmonary valve with a donated human heart valve. "The Ross procedure is one of several different types of congenital heart disease treatments that we really wanted to champion," said Dr. Adil Husain, chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery for University of Utah Health, and co-director of thePrimary Children's has become a high-volume Ross Procedure Center, treating 60 kids in the last two years.
Husain said patients who have this procedure shouldn't need another intervention within the next 15 to 20 years, and only 15% of those will need a replacement."They're embracing it as a procedure that likely allows patients to live a normal life span after replacement, whereas prior replacements did not put them on the same trajectory," he said.
"During those other medical issues, it became clear to us that his aortic valve had deteriorated," Husain said.Creedon had the Ross procedure last March, at about the same time he went into remission for his cancer."He's a normal kid again," McCall said. "I'm grateful, beyond grateful that he is where he is now. It was really scary."He added if you have any heart concerns to visit your doctor right away.
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