Out of Surgery

We talked to Dr. St. Louis a short while ago. The surgery went fine. After doing a bunch of diagnostic testing -- looking at pressures in her heart compared to pressures elsewhere in her body -- St. Louis concluded that there was no reason to do any aortic arch repair; her aortic arch is as good as it's going to get for now. So, since he didn't need to do any reconstruction, he didn't need to go in through her sternum again, instead, he went in through a small incision in her side. He pulled her aorta away from her pulmonary vein, but he's still not convinced that it really did much good as far as helping increase the blood flow through the vein. She will have another CT scan in a few days to determine whether this procedure did any good. Most likely, St. Louis will still end up reconstructing the pulmonary vein at the same time that he goes in to do her Glenn procedure. This will make that surgery much more complex than it normally would have been, but he feels that it's probably better to do it all at once rather than doing it as two separate procedures. It sounds like we will probably have all of that done sometime later this summer.