http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/06/30/three-dimensional-image-of-the-human-heart-valves/#comment-12078 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:09:40 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2008/06/30/three-dimensional-image-of-the-human-heart-valves/#comment-12078 My 8 year old son, who was born with tetralogy of fallot, has undergone 2 surgeries already...once at 3 months of age and once at 6 years...the first time in the US at Ochsner Clinic in LA and the second time in San Jose Costa Rica...he got a horrible pneumonia in october of last year and was inthe hospital until January....while in the hospital he contracted a bacteria...streptococcus....and it ate the entire repair they had done two years ago....now he is in need of another valve....the drs. want to put a mechanical valve in......what can be done....will he be ok....what do i do for him....help me please.... My 8 year old son, who was born with tetralogy of fallot, has undergone 2 surgeries already…once at 3 months of age and once at 6 years…the first time in the US at Ochsner Clinic in LA and the second time in San Jose Costa Rica…he got a horrible pneumonia in october of last year and was inthe hospital until January….while in the hospital he contracted a bacteria…streptococcus….and it ate the entire repair they had done two years ago….now he is in need of another valve….the drs. want to put a mechanical valve in……what can be done….will he be ok….what do i do for him….help me please….

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