It's official. We are moving into the waiting room. Sammy's records are being sent to UCLA to see if he is a candidate for this autologous pericardial leaflet extension. It's a valve sparing open heart procedure where they do a little "nip, tuck", turn the bicuspid into a tricuspid if possible, add the pericardial tissue to extend the leaflet to stem the regurgitation-- and potentially buy him some time before needing a full valve replacement and hopefully lessen the number of surgeries by at least one...
Anyone know anything about this procedure? have any experience with it? seen it done on kids?
Anyone know anything about this procedure? have any experience with it? seen it done on kids?
