On June 23, 11-month-old Elias Robinson-Rodriquez became the seventh patient in the world to undergo the groundbreaking surgery, which transfers a valve from a donor heart to a patient whose valves are not properly functioning.
Doctors at Dell Children's Medical Center performed the first partial heart transplant on a child in Texas last month.
he continued to have problems with his aortic valve, which didn’t open fully and limited blood flow.“It was clear that valve needed to be changed,” Dr. Carlos Mery, surgical director of the Heart Transplant Program at Dell Children’s, said. “I’m cautiously optimistic that the children who’ve had these [surgeries] to date, including Elias, will be able to have a single operation rather than having to have multiple ones,” Dr. Chesney Castleberry, medical director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Transplant Program, said.Dr. Charles Fraser, who leads the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children’s, said the surgery is an example of what the program can offer the Central Texas region.
Pediatric partial transplants have been performed at only three other U.S. institutions — Duke University, Columbia University and the Medical University of South Carolina.
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