In child heart patients, a novel approach improves symptoms of hazardous lymph blockage

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Pediatric researchers have devised an innovative, safe and minimally invasive procedure that helps relieve rare but potentially life-threatening airway blockages occurring in children who had surgery for congenital heart defects. Physician-researchers developed new imaging tools to treat plastic bronchitis--in which abnormal circulation causes lymphatic fluid to dry into solid casts that clog a child's airways.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news