Comments on: Corrected: Reverse Blood Flow

By: Doc

Doc — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:19:45 +0000

Go Boy Go!!!!!!

By: Legion

Legion — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:35:52 +0000

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

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:45:40 +0000

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.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:29:02 +0000

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!!

By: norm

norm — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:39:51 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:22:17 +0000

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.

By: Cell

Cell — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:38:40 +0000

I agree Sojo!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:25:35 +0000

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.

By: Sojo

Sojo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:51:41 +0000

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!

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:13:50 +0000

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)