First, let’s let the internets explain what a pseudoaneurysm is: “A pseudoaneurysm, also termed a false aneurysm, is a leakage of arterial blood from an artery into the surrounding tissue with a persistent communication between the originating artery and the resultant adjacent cavity. This may occur after arterial puncture for a diagnostic cardiac catheterization or an arteriogram, but is more common after an arterial intervention.” Thanks UC Davis Vascular Center:) Back to his journey…
About a month after his Norwood, I called the hospital on October 11th 2006 because his monitor kept reading that his oxygen levels were 52% (it was 70% the day before; days prior it was dropping percentages). I took him in to see his cardiologist, at this time he was 7 weeks old.
It was discovered that he had a Right ventricular outflow tract [RVOT]Aneurysm. We were quickly admitted; do not pass go, go directly to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). He was scheduled as the first case the next morning October 12th. During our stay, his oxygen levels remained at 52%. While trying to comfort him, because he couldn’t eat in preparation for surgery, it was discovered that when I held him in an upright position, literally, his oxygen levels rose to 70%. So for the rest of the evening, night, overnight, and following morning, until the nurse was ready to take him into surgery, my baby remained in my arms in an upright position.
During this ordeal he ended up with acute renal failure. He lost kidney function for a time. The doctors couldn’t tell me if his kidneys would come back, because they said that his case has never happened before; so it was a waiting game for all of us. He ended up going on Peritoneal Dialysis until his kidneys back.
Because his kidneys wasn’t functioning, the medications that was used to nurse him back to health was delayed in leaving his body. This was the worst I’ve seen him.
We ended up staying in the hospital just over a month having been discharged November 18, 2006.
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Pseudoaneurysm
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Scan 13
About a month after his Norwood, I called the hospital on October 11th 2006 because his monitor kept reading that his oxygen levels were 52% (it was 70% the day before; days prior it was dropping percentages). I took him in to see his cardiologist, at this time he was 7 weeks old.
It was discovered that he had a Right ventricular outflow tract [RVOT]Aneurysm. We were quickly admitted; do not pass go, go directly to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). He was scheduled as the first case the next morning October 12th. During our stay, his oxygen levels remained at 52%. While trying to comfort him, because he couldn’t eat in preparation for surgery, it was discovered that when I held him in an upright position, literally, his oxygen levels rose to 70%. So for the rest of the evening, night, overnight, and following morning, until the nurse was ready to take him into surgery, my baby remained in my arms in an upright position.
During this ordeal he ended up with acute renal failure. He lost kidney function for a time. The doctors couldn’t tell me if his kidneys would come back, because they said that his case has never happened before; so it was a waiting game for all of us. He ended up going on Peritoneal Dialysis until his kidneys back.
Because his kidneys wasn’t functioning, the medications that was used to nurse him back to health was delayed in leaving his body. This was the worst I’ve seen him.
We ended up staying in the hospital just over a month having been discharged November 18, 2006.
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