7 Months Baby Dry Cough

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"It is rare to see two siblings all be both born with heart disease, because in principle they are not hereditary.

What was Louis's heart and his sister Matilda? "

Louis and Matilda share a bicuspid aortic valve instead of Tricuspid. (2 leaflets instead of 3) In this malformation raises a number of problems on the heart, mainly aortic stenosis. Aortic stenosis is a progressive heart disease that involves a narrowing of the aortic valve. Its mechanism is the presence of an obstacle to the ejection of blood from the left ventricle to the aorta. This results, above, an increase of pressure in the left ventricle, which will thicken by offsetting (hypertrophy), and downstream by an inadequate cardiac output during exercise.

Each heart is unique, each also bicuspid! At one will require a "simple" valve replacement: 30, 40, 50 ... Among the other major aortic stenosis in utero causing excessive fatigue of the heart up to the hypoplastic left ventricle: this was the case of Louis. Despite several interventions, the ventricle has never regained the lead. Mathilde

it has exacerbated his aortic stenosis in utero which required support from birth but fortunately always kept a good left ventricle. Her stenosis will continue to evolve despite the surgery. Therefore it must be regularly monitored sonographically and will one day be reoperation.

To answer the question, yes the majority of heart disease is not original genetics. We now know that there are cases "family" of bicuspid: in our case we had no other known cases in the family. But since a bicuspid can remain silent 30, 40, 50 ... we discover that heart disease may be other members more or less distant from our families one day. I repeat what I said in another article is part of the bicuspid obstructive left heart malformations and we know that heart disease is the most recurrent (= who is likely to recur during a new pregnancy). A single gene has been identified so far in these heart : We're not a carrier. A study started this year to try to discover what other genes are involved in these heart: we will benefit from this study by giving all three of our DNA.

"As a Mom, do you live having put Matilda born with a heart as a failure?"

The answer is again related the story of his older brother Louis. When I lost my son was obviously a terrible failure at all levels: giving life to a little bit sick of heart, seeing his condition deteriorate as the weeks and to come to beg the heavens to let him go ... Also, the day I learned that Mathilde was also carrying this heart I have always experienced the situation as another failure ... or rather like a monstrous fear of reliving the same story as for Louis.

I step back today but I can say that the arrival of Matilda has largely belong in the category: victory and revenge on life ! She is everything I hoped I was not allowed since the departure of Louis and more.

Not failure, but then the guilt ... Guilt with which I try compose different days, which will have its place in the back of my head until my last breath but at every difficult moment that Matilda will cross with his heart. Guilt and therefore the age-old question unanswered: Why "fucking" valve leaflets have ever been delivered on time?

Matilda every day: http://coeurdeprincesse.blogspot.com/