Update from Dr. Dummels

One of the cardiologists just came in to let us know that the surgery will be going a little longer than expected due to how they are going to need to repair some of her veins.  Her CHD is called an ASD with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection.  That means that she has a hole between the two upper atria and an important vein grew improperly because of the location of the hole.

They were hoping that by patching the hole, they'd be able to just re-route the blood coming from the vein into the left atrium where it belongs.  Unfortunately, when they got into her heart, the vein is too high up on the heart to go this route.  They now have to do a warden procedure, which means they have to disconnect it and reconnect it in a way that the blood flows where it needs to.  There are different long-term affects with this procedure that her cardiologists will watch for throughout her life, but ultimately, she still should have no limitations to the activities she can do and she shouldn't need to be on medications.