{"id":979,"date":"2002-12-20T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T02:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=979"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:20:21","slug":"new-procedure-to-repair-holes-in-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/new-procedure-to-repair-holes-in-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"New Procedure to Repair Holes-In-The-Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2002\/12\/20\/new-procedure-to-repair-holes-in-the-heart\/holeheart\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-980\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/holeheart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>In an Australian first, doctors at Royal Children\u2019s Hospital are now able to repair the commonest holes in the heart without performing open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Children are able to go home 24-hours after the procedure rather than remaining in hospital for a week as they would following conventional surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Four year-old Brandon Connelly\u2019s hole in the heart was repaired using this new method of treatment on Tuesday and he was able to go home today, Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This new procedure is performed using a minimally invasive technique using a catheter. Whilst some \u2018holes\u2019 have been repaired previously using a similar technique, the commonest \u2018holes\u2019, ventricular septum defects (VSDs) have not been amenable to this and have required open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Specialists at Royal Children\u2019s Hospital were trained in this new technique by paediatric cardiologist Dr Ziyad Hijazi from Chicago Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Media is invited to meet Brandon and his parents at Royal Children\u2019s Hospital tomorrow to see the results of this new method of treatment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DATE Thursday 19th December 2002<\/li>\n<li>T IME 11.30AM<\/li>\n<li>PLACE Board Room, 5th Floor Front Entry Building (directions from enquiry desk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Available for interview<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Brandon, Tammy and Darren Connelly<\/li>\n<li>Dr Jim Wilkinson, Paediatric Cardiologist RCH<\/li>\n<li>Dr T H Goh, Paediatric Cardilogist, RCH<\/li>\n<li>Dr Ziyad Hijazi, Paediatric Cardiologist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vision of the procedure will be available.<\/p>\n<p>Media enquiries call Julie Webber 9345 5522 and page or mobile 0407 327 418<\/p>\n<h4>This story gained coverage in:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The Age December 20th<\/li>\n<li>Herald Sun December 20th<\/li>\n<li>Radio coverage Australia wide<\/li>\n<li>Television coverage on all networks, Australia wide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Australian first, doctors at Royal Children\u2019s Hospital are now able to repair the commonest holes in the heart without performing open-heart surgery. Children are able to go home 24-hours after the procedure rather than remaining in hospital for a week as they would following conventional surgery. Four year-old Brandon Connelly\u2019s hole in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/new-procedure-to-repair-holes-in-the-heart\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-979","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\/979","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}