{"id":2080,"date":"2012-06-18T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:47:52","slug":"forget-the-blues-its-looking-rosy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/forget-the-blues-its-looking-rosy\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the blues, it&#8217;s looking Rosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2082\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/06\/18\/forget-the-blues-its-looking-rosy\/054451-rose-da-gama-210x160-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2082\" title=\"054451-rose-da-gama-210x160\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/08\/054451-rose-da-gama-210x1601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-year-old Rose in the ward activity room at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) patient Rose Da Gama Pinto was recently diagnosed with a heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot.<\/p>\n<p>Rose&#8217;s parents began noticing that\u00a0the one-year-old was turning blue when she became upset. When she later developed a\u00a0bad cold, doctors detected a heart murmur.<\/p>\n<p>The day before Rose&#8217;s first birthday she had a spell in the RCH emergency department. &#8220;It was awful she panicked and cried and couldn&#8217;t breathe properly and she turned blue,&#8221; said Rose&#8217;s mum Amanda.<\/p>\n<p>RCH\u00a0cardiologist Dr Peta Alexander said Rose had a combination of structural heart problems. There is a hole between the pumping chambers of her heart, called a ventricular septal defect, together with narrowing of the outflow to her lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Rose will need open heart surgery to repair the hole.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a title=\"Rose Da Gama Pinto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/ipad\/forget-the-blues-its-looking-rosy\/story-fn6bfkm6-1226398055377\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-year-old Rose was diagnosed with a heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot after having episodes where she would turn blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}