For the first time in Arizona, a new type of heart valve replacement has successfully treated an adult. The procedure was completed this month at HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center.
Dr. Tabitha Moe directs the HonorHealth Adult Congenital Heart Disease program. She explained that some babies are born with a defect (called tetralogy of Fallot) in which not enough blood gets from the right side of their heart to their lungs, so they have a surgery to open up that pathway.
“As these children age, they often require additional procedures because the size of the tube that’s put in place as a 1-month-old, may be too small when that child grows up,” Moe said…