BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (KFOR) – “After I was about 20 weeks alongside, we came upon that she was going to must have three surgical procedures. I began going to a specialist, after which we came upon that she had hypoplastic proper coronary heart, VSD, tricuspid atresia and pulmonary atresia,” Misty Allen of Damaged Arrow mentioned.
Hypoplastic proper coronary heart syndrome means the appropriate aspect of the guts is undeveloped. VSD stands for ventricle septal defect and means there’s a gap in her daughter’s coronary heart. Tricuspid Atresia is a coronary heart defect by which the guts valve is lacking or abnormally developed. Pulmonary Atresia is a beginning defect the place the valve that controls blood move from the guts to the lungs doesn’t kind in any respect. Little Scarlett was a really in poor health child, and the names describing her medical illnesses have been lots to absorb for anyone not to mention a pregnant mom attempting to know what is going on to her unborn child.
“Our fetal cardiologists meet the mom after they’re pregnant and discover out they’ve a cardiac anomaly and can observe them each few weeks and do extra ultrasounds,” Scarlett’s surgeon, Dr. Harold Burkhart, mentioned.
“Every little thing was simply beginning to get cloudy,” Misty mentioned. “I used to be actually overwhelming.”
Time was essential.
“Scarlett shall be born,” Burkhart mentioned. “You may get to kiss Scarlett, after which we’ll take Scarlett to the NICU, and they’ll make sure that every little thing is secure and begin that drugs that retains that artery open.”
Medical doctors intervened, and a plan was put in place.
“The primary surgical procedure that they did, there’s a valve on the prime of the guts that closes after 72 hours robotically, and so they wanted to maintain that open,” Misty mentioned. “So, the very first thing that they did was they put a BT shunt in to maintain the blood flowing, as a result of primarily the blood comes into the appropriate aspect of your coronary heart after which strikes to the left, however hers was closed and it could not function correctly.”
A sequence of surgical procedures of rerouting and bypassing have been carried out.
“The third surgical procedure shall be [on an] artery that is bringing all of the blood in from the physique,” she mentioned. “They will detach it and reattach it to the artery going out to the lungs. So, primarily, all the blood coming again into her coronary heart will simply go straight to the lungs and bypass the guts all collectively.”
Scarlett could have another surgical procedure to bear after she is 2 years previous, however she just isn’t alone. She has her household and a complete workforce of medical professionals.
“Everybody there,” Misty mentioned. “They’re all so unimaginable. I like how all of them meet collectively. They’re all on the identical web page. All of them cowl each little element.”
And they’re all simply as decided because the little lady who has overcome in her quick life greater than many individuals will in a lifetime.
“I do not know what it’s, however I do know she’s going to be robust and assured no matter she decides to do,” Misty mentioned.
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