Miami Toddler Gets Rare Heart Fix Without a Single Incision at Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A Miami toddler has received a rare heart repair without a single incision. Local outlets reported on October 5 that specialists at Nicklaus Children's Hospital performed a rare transcatheter Fontan procedure on the young patient, completing through a catheter a stage of treatment that traditionally requires open-heart surgery. The Fontan procedure is the final staged operation for children born with single-ventricle congenital heart defects. Delivered by catheter rather than through a sternotomy, the approach avoids opening the chest and can be transformative for small children who are poor candidates for another major open operation. Nicklaus Children's is South Florida's flagship pediatric hospital. Specialists caution that transcatheter Fontan techniques are available at only a handful of centers worldwide and that long-term outcomes are still being tracked. Source: Hoodline, Miami's Community News
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