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Transposition of the Great Arteries: LJ's Story

When their unborn baby was diagnosed with a heart defect called transposition of the great arteries, Kristin and Joe turned to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. For more: http://heart.chop.edu Jack Rychik, MD, and the team at the Fetal Heart Program at CHOP monitored the baby throughout the pregnancy and put a plan in place for the baby's delivery and immediate care. LJ was born at CHOP's Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, the world’s first birthing unit within a pediatric hospital dedicated to healthy mothers carrying babies with serious and life-threatening birth defects. A few hours later he had a catheterization procedure called balloon atrial septostomy, which stabilized him for open heart surgery two days later. The surgery, called the arterial switch, was performed by Christopher E. Mascio, MD, a pediatric heart surgeon at CHOP.