Ultrasound Scan with Paediatric Cardiologist
February 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm (Pregnancy)
We were sent to have another ultrasound today at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, with a paediatric cardiologist looking on and they concentrated on the heart and listened to the heart beating and looked at how all the blood flowed in and out of the heart and its valves and the right and left ventricles. Basically we were advised that Bean’s heart had 3 defects, all which could be corrected with Open Heart Surgery within the 6 months of life. This was the first positive thing that we had heard in the last 2 days and it filled us both with some cautious optimism.
The defects identified today were:
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Transposition of the Great Arteries
Double Outlet Right Ventricle