One-year old Alisa was diagnosed a Ventricular Septal Defect – a hole between at wo pumping chambers and needed a repair of Transportation of the Great Arteries.
The operation lasted over 7 hours and was complicated by significant bleeding. As a precaution his chest was left open in the ICU. After the bleeding subsided overnight, Dr. Bykov was able to close her chest the next day.
Fedya, 3 years old, was born with only one working pump in his heart (single ventricle heart disease). He had a Fontan
