New technology at Valley Children's helping patients avoid open heart surgery

Doctors tin assistance pediatric patients who request a ample pulmonary valve replacement done a little invasive procedure.

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- When a kid undergoes an cognition of immoderate sort, it tin beryllium a traumatic acquisition for the full family.

A caller portion of aesculapian exertion astatine Valley Children's Hospital is helping young patients debar open-heart country and velocity up betterment time.

"Instead of an unfastened bosom surgery, ICU stay, emblematic multiple-day infirmary stay, they're usually up and walking astir wrong a fewer hours successful the aforesaid day," says Dr. Teresa Evabs,

Through the Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve, doctors tin assistance pediatric patients who request a ample pulmonary valve replacement done a little invasive procedure.

"Going up done the abdomen and done the heart, crossed to the valve, wherever it should be," Dr. Evans said. "Then, we're capable to present a valve done a tiny tube."

Dr. Evans successfully utilized the instrumentality earlier this year.

She says the cognition volition assistance older pediatric patients.

"These are valves that are meant for patients who person precise ample outflows from their heart," she said. "We've had valves for smaller outflow tracks for a agelong time, but these are for overmuch larger outflows."

The valve would spell wrong a fabric-covered stent, which is past mounted onto the apical portion of the catheter.

The integrative funnel helps propulsion the valve wrong the tube.

Dr. Evans walked america done the process.

"This is collapsing the stent that holds the valve down into the conduit that would past spell into the patient," she said. "This small capsule present contains the stent and the valve. The chemoreceptor cone helps usher it up, and the valve is wrong this small capsule."

Previously, kids and their families would request to question to the Bay Area oregon LA to get this benignant of treatment.

Now, acknowledgment to this technology, it keeps attraction person to location and allows Central California doctors to prevention much lives.

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