Nineteen children (from newborns to teens) with heart conditions receive partial heart transplants using live donor heart valves ❤️🫀. The valves grow with the children, work across many congenital heart conditions, may cut down need for future operations and immunosuppressants.
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Duke Health
Living Heart Valves Show Promise Across Multiple Pediatric Conditions
DURHAM, N.C. – A procedure which uses living heart valves may have expanded application as a treatment for various types of pediatric heart valve conditions.The research was led by pediatric heart specialists at Duke Health. It looked at 19 children with…