One New Heart Sponsored Child

The Dannecker family in Jerusalem is still involved in helping Palestinian children get life-saving heart surgery through their program, One New Heart. Below is a report on a currently-sponsored child named Hanan.

http://www.1newheart.org/Current_Sponsored_Child.html

In addition, I received an update on another sponsored child, Sadel:


Dear Friends,

Today I made a phone call to Wolfson Medical Center to find out when they were going to schedule Sadel for surgery. To my surprise we were told that the doctor decided to operate on her yesterday, on Sunday morning.
Today when I arrived at the PICU the doctors were discussing her case, I was told that the surgery went very well and that she was in stable condition. This baby girl is only nine days old and has undergone major heart surgery to reverse the Transposition of the great arteries.
Transposition of the great arteries (TGA) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart lesion that presents in neonates. The hallmark of transposition of the great arteries is ventriculoarterial discordance, in which the aorta arises from the morphologic right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from the morphologic left ventricle.Although transposition of the great arteries was first described over 2 centuries ago, no treatment was available until the middle of the 20th century, with the development of surgical atrial septectomy in the 1950s and balloon atrial septostomy in the 1960s. These palliative therapies were followed by physiological procedures (atrial switch operation) and anatomic repair (arterial switch operation). Today, the survival rate for infants with transposition of the great arteries is greater than 90%.

It was very interesting to learn that the mother did not get permission to come to the hospital but the father did. As I was walking away I witnessed this young father praying for his little baby girl.



Grace & Peace,

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Hank Dannecker Jr.
1 New Heart

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If you are interested in helping, you can follow the links on their website-which is also listed on this blog under, "Worthy of our support".