A complex open heart surgery is an undertaking full of inherent risks, during which many things hang in the balance. But, what if some of that unforeseen risk could be mitigated? What if the surgeon could hold your heart in their hands, study every detail, visualize every structure, even practice their operation on your heart before they ever made an actual cut, or even entered the operating room? What if? Recent state-of-the-art developments in 3D imaging and 3D printing have bee...
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A complex open heart surgery is an undertaking full of inherent risks, during which many things hang in the balance. But, what if some of that unforeseen risk could be mitigated? What if the surgeon could hold your heart in their hands, study every detail, visualize every structure, even practice their operation on your heart before they ever made an actual cut, or even entered the operating room? What if? Recent state-of-the-art developments in 3D imaging and 3D printing have bee...
Half of My Heart - A New Paradigm for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
One Rare Heart
23 minutes
5 years ago
Half of My Heart - A New Paradigm for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
What happens when someone is born with only half of a working heart? Remarkably, this is what happens in babies born with a rare congenital heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). Physician/scientist Dr. Paul Grossfeld studies HLHS at his laboratory at the University of California San Diego, and his team has made some amazing, paradigm-shifting discoveries. As you'll hear, these breakthroughs may very well lead to changes in the way this disease is treated, and...
One Rare Heart
A complex open heart surgery is an undertaking full of inherent risks, during which many things hang in the balance. But, what if some of that unforeseen risk could be mitigated? What if the surgeon could hold your heart in their hands, study every detail, visualize every structure, even practice their operation on your heart before they ever made an actual cut, or even entered the operating room? What if? Recent state-of-the-art developments in 3D imaging and 3D printing have bee...
