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Texas Children’s Hospital Explants Heart Assist Device: Sends Teen Home with a Healed Heart

August 3, 2011 By Bio-Medicine.Org

HOUSTON, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Children’s Hospital
is the nation’s first pediatric hospital to both surgically implant
and later explant a mechanical ventricular assist device (VAD),
inside the chest of a teen with chronic heart failure as a bridge
to recovery, avoiding heart transplantation. The patient,
15-year-old David Rios, returned to his home in South Texas with a
healed heart after spending seven months at Texas Children’s
Hospital recovering from a life-threatening heart illness. To watch
a video of Rio’s journey to a healed heart, please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vjSZXWhCaI

“This is a giant leap in the care of children with heart
failure. David is the first patient with chronic heart failure at
any pediatric hospital to have his heart healed by using an
intracorporeal mechanical heart assist device,” said Dr. David L.S.
Morales, pediatric cardiovascular surgeon at Texas Children’s Heart
Center, who performed both the surgical implant and explant
procedures on Rios. “The device has allowed David’s heart to return
to normal function and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome,”
said Morales, also associate professor of surgery and pediatrics at
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).

Rios recovered from the surgical removal very quickly. Within
two days, he left the cardiac intensive care unit.  He resumed
his physical therapy and advanced rapidly with an ability to
exercise better than he had done with the device. His medical team
measured his progress once a month and found that his heart was
getting stronger each time. Early on, he was able to walk 700 yards
in six minutes.  Echocardiograms and other heart tests showed
that his heart was restored to normal function.

By early July, doctors felt he could return to his home in the
Rio Grande Valley.  They recommended that he see a
cardiologist there for a baseline follow-up. Then he will return
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