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Pediatric neuroscientists from Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to present at American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting

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Thursday, December 2, 2021
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The annual meeting is held each year for the epilepsy community to learn best practices and review breakthrough research.

Key Points: 
  • The annual meeting is held each year for the epilepsy community to learn best practices and review breakthrough research.
  • Le Bonheur serves as a primary teaching affiliate for the University Tennessee Health Science Center and trains more than 350 pediatricians and specialists each year.
  • Nationally recognized, Le Bonheur is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Children's Hospital.
  • The main campus in Memphis includes six colleges: Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.

Le Bonheur first in region to perform pulmonary valve replacement for tetralogy of Fallot via catheterization using newly FDA-approved Harmony valve

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Monday, November 22, 2021
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But thanks to a new device the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) system Le Bonheur Medical Director of the Interventional Catheterization Laboratory Shyam Sathanandam, MD, can conduct pulmonary valve replacement for TOF patients through a minimally-invasive catheterization procedure.

Key Points: 
  • But thanks to a new device the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) system Le Bonheur Medical Director of the Interventional Catheterization Laboratory Shyam Sathanandam, MD, can conduct pulmonary valve replacement for TOF patients through a minimally-invasive catheterization procedure.
  • The TPV system is the first FDA-approved minimally-invasive therapy for pulmonary valve replacement for children with TOF who had transannular patch repair as an infant.
  • Still, she and her parents knew that once her heart was fully grown she'd need another open-heart surgery for pulmonary valve replacement.
  • But he had a new suggestion: undergo a minimally-invasive catheterization procedure for a valve replacement at Le Bonheur's Heart Institute.