The attending doctor this week is the doctor who preformed Tyler's first heart cath balloon procedure on the SVC. This procedure was particularly stressful and we were very relieved when it was over. Facing a second heart cath is not where we want to be right now at all. He is talking about either doing another balloon or inserting a stint. He admits that he is an interventionist so we have asked for some other opinions on what to do with Tyler.
Two of the other cardiologists here agree that something should be done right now but they are leaning more toward avoiding the stint. We sent Tyler's echos and info to cardiac cath doctors in Texas and Toronto who deal with this in infants more frequently. Both say that without a doubt, we need to stint Tyler. Here they do not stint babies very often, maybe one or two in a whole year. That is how rare this is. If we do the stint we are committing Tyler to having a metal stint in his body forever at 2 months old. He will also have to have the stint expanded at least one more time in his life as he grows. If we do the balloon, like last time, it is much more likely that it will close back up again now and we are back where we started again.
The doctor said that looking at the schedule he could probably work Tyler in on Monday. Next week's schedule is crazy and they think there is a case that will cancel on Monday. The sooner we do this this better because it will only get worse the longer we wait.
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