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Date: 03/14/04 Views: 748

Sarah's Aorta Surgery

Date: 01/06/08 Owner: Andrew Pollock Size: 18 items (32 items total)
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Sarah's head is at the bottom of this picture, her heart is to the left, the aorta is in the centre of the picture. Where it attaches to the heart (and the sinuses) are beneath the heart and out of sight, as is the arch. Presumably we're looking at the an

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 2055
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The bad tissue has been removed. You can see the clamped aorta at the bottom of the surgical site. The small hose is bypassing a coronary artery I think

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 1736
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Similar to previous. They're attaching the first bit of Dacron, this bit directly to the heart

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 1770
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Here you can see directly into the Dacron where they're attaching the valve. They've started suturing at the bottom, but the other two thirds aren't attached yet

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 1952
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Here you can see the valve fully attached

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 1693
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Here's the finished job. They've attached a smaller diameter Dacron tube to the first part, and then grafted that onto the rest of the aorta

Date: 01/03/08 Views: 1980
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Sarah in the PM on the day after surgery, before they removed the dressing on her incision.

Date: 01/04/08 Views: 2033
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Sarah in the AM on the 5th (second day after surgery), after they removed the incision dressing. You can see the bruising starting to come in. That's about as bad as it got though, it went away pretty fast.

Date: 01/05/08 Views: 2454
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Dr D. Craig Miller (Sarah's surgeon) showing her how to do her lung exercises

Date: 01/05/08 Views: 2374
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