My 2 1/2 month old baby died following surgery to correct transposition of the great vessels in 1975. He was the smallest child this surgery had been performed on at that time. If somehow what he went thru paved the way for strides in the surgical procedure to cure this child I would be so thankful. If only we had had that expertise back then. He might have survived. I pray for this child’s recovery.

And yet people say there are no examples of evolutionary transitional forms.

This condition is caused by a simple genetic mutation that causes a dramatic change in the body’s form. Yes, it’s a bad change, but this is also the way we jumped from having a single-chamber heart to a two- three- and now four-chambered heart. Natural selection then favored the better designs.

The overwhelming evidence for evolution is all around us. Trust the science and stop dwelling in magical thoughts.

My son had this surgery done by an incredible surgeon in Wichita, KS in 1992. He was only five days old when the surgery was performed. By the grace of God and a wonderful medical staff, he will turn 16 in June. I am quite positive the beautiful children that have died from this heart disease, are responsible for my son being given the opportunity to become such a fine young man.

I am very happy for this child And you are right Marty Q.

my grandson had this operation at 2 days old.
Luckily he was at Winnie Palmer hospital in Orlando, Florida.

He’s now almost a year old & doing fine.

Dude…

Its just amazing the medical technology we have now a days.

I bet $20 he grows up to be a foot-ball star or something.

I am a survivor of that condition. I am 34 and have had many procedures and problems my entire life. At least now they can almost correct it completely compared to when I have the surgery. This really isn’t a big story, living with it is, but nobody cares about survivors, the media only cares about victums.

not sure why this makes the news. this is not a terribly uncommon congenital heart problem.

is this different from transposition of the great arteries? our now 6yr old had the arterial switch for tga at 3 days of age. we were told he would die w/i his first 6mos of life w/o surgery - so how did this child survive? amazing he did…

While this success is wonderful this is not entirely new news. My brother had basically the same conditon at birth and was living on backflow thru the hole in the crdiac wall that normally closes up after birth. The operation was done when he was about two in Harrisburg PA and he is now 26 and has no long term negative effects. He did have to get re-opened about two weeks after the surgery to have a window cut into his para-cardial sack due to fluid build-up ( similiar to a rug burn)

Even though this condition/correction might not be new, it is newsworthy in that IT IS GOOD NEWS! I’ll take this kind of news anytime over the death and destruction we see every day on the front page of every newspaper. This should be on the front page. Congratulations and I wish for this child a long and happy life!

Lol Marty Q, no one ever said that genetic defects don’t occur. He didn’t wind up as a slightly different life form, his blood vessels flowed the wrong way. No matter which way I feel about the “issue” of evolution, that is a poor excuse for an example of evolution.

I agree Sojo!

Marty Q,

Your use of this heart defect as an example of evolution is entirely evidence that it takes more faith to believe in evolution than in intelligent design. I fail to see how this complex system we call the circulatory system was improved by this life-threatening condition. Survival of the fittest favors the status-quo when faced with single incremental genetic mutations that don’t (and can’t) address all of the intricacies of a complex system. You said we “jumped” from a single chamber heart to a multi-chambered heart. That thought alone is contrary to the incremental mutations that are the cornerstone of evolution theory. Organ systems can’t “jump” from one form to another. Evolution says they change slowly.

The problem with evolutionary theory is that if the single mutation isn’t accompanied by numerous and SIMULTANEOUS mutations to improve or even maintain the multiple functions of the circulatory system, the result is death which equals failure of the mutation to pass to another generation.

The odds of single genetic mutation are tiny enough and when you factor in all of the required compensating and adjusting mutations necessary to occur AT THE SAME TIME to keep the young child alive, it is evolution that looks more like magic than a belief in intelligent design.

Your theory looks good on paper, but in practice it flops.

Praise God for intelligent and capable surgeons who could REPAIR the DEFECT and hopefully restore this child to a normal life.

So it’s not that uncommon; maybe the media was hard up for news today. I hope the child has a full recovery and a normal life, thanks to the medical staff.

simply amazing what we can do now days..

What happend to the kids in the old days? .. they didnt even have a chance

&& finally a story with a happy ending,, for once!!

Bravo to the doctors that performed this live saving surgery. My dear little sister, Rachel, was also born with a transposition of the great vessels but also had the complication of a single ventricle with no dividing wall, a large hole, and an enormously enlarged heart. She was born in 1964 and managed to survive to her 16th year, a miracle in and of itself. Had she been born even a handful of years later she might well be alive today. Alas, she passed away immediately following the surgery that her doctors had pioneered. Thankfully this same lifesaving surgery has been honed and refined into an art while the technology that goes with it has come light years from those days and is being successfully accomplished today. I agree that it took the unfortunate deaths of people like my dear sister to pave the way for children of today to live healthy and long lives. The modern medical community needs to be proud of the strides that have been made in this field. I hope all the children children born with congenital heart defects will be able to avail themselves of these marvelous technological miracles. Here is to a long, healthy, and happy life to all of them and for those of us who have lost loved ones along the way, here’s to us too.

You gotta have Heeeaaarrrttt! Lots and lots and lots of Heart!

Go Boy Go!!!!!!