🏥 Health 1d ago · Jessica Pasley

Pediatric partial heart transplant a first in Tennessee

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For decades, when families were told that their infant or young child needed a heart valve replacement, the discussion often included a difficult reality: additional procedures or operations would be required because conventional replacement valves do not grow with a child.



Now surgeons at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are having very different conversations: The introduction of a new valve replacement technique could change the trajectory for selected patients.



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