Stories
Maria Jose
8 years
Maria Jose is an 8-year-old girl from El Tortuguero, a little town 300 miles away from Managua. Getting Maria to the Pediatric Heart Center where the surgery could be performed required a dangerous trek for more than 10 hours. Maria Jose has a history of rheumatic heart disease, which left her with a severe aortic stenosis..
Francella
15 months
Francella, baby de Delia Nadeska Mercado Mojica, is a 15 months-old girl with 10.4 kg from Granada who was diagnosed with a complex cardiac disease that does not allow total repair at this stage (multiple large interventricular communications, or communications between the left and the right ventricles)..
Emely
12 months
Emely Rivera Aburto is a 14 months-old girl with only 8.5 kg, who was followed for a congenital cardiac defect consisting of a large ventricular septal defect or VSD (a large communication between the left and the right ventricle) and a persistent ductus arteriosus or PDA (a persistent fetal vessel between..
Carlos Manuel
15 years
Carlos Manuel Gaitan López, 15 year-old adolescent who was followed for a congenital cardiac defect that had significantly progressed over the years. This was a pulmonary stenosis or obstruction to blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary arteries, associated with a very impressively dilated (aneurysmal)..
Wesley
15 months
Wesley is a 15 months-old little boy with only 6.5 kg, who was followed for a congenital cardiac defect consisting of a large ventricular septal defect or VSD (a large communication between the left and the right ventricle). He successfully underwent an open heart surgery that allowed the closure of the VSD..
Brisa del Mar
5 years
Brisa del Mar is a lovely 5 year-old girl who came to the Heart Center in Managua for evaluation of breathlessness. She was found to have a severe obstruction to the blood flowing between the left ventricle and the aorta, in the form of a subaortic membrane, an evolving congenital heart disease..
Carlos José
8 months
Carlos José Navarro Marin is a 8 month-old little boy with only 5.2 kg, who was followed for a congenital cardiac defect consisting of a large ventricular septal defect or VSD (a large communication between the left and the right ventricle). He underwent an open heart surgery that allowed the closure of the VSD..
