The mother had severe aortic stenosis, but she didn’t know it when she first got pregnant.
– A woman from Katy is celebrating Mother’s Day for the first time this weekend and she believes her new baby is the reason she’s alive today.“My shortness of breath had gotten worse and my ankles are swelling and I was only like six-weeks pregnant so that didn’t seem too normal,” Evans explained.
“As those physiological changes occur, this was occurring and causing more damage to her heart because of this bad valve,” said UT Health and Memorial Hermann cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Anthony Estrera. They decided to use a medical balloon to open her valve temporarily, but even during that less invasive procedure, a team of doctors was on standby in case things went wrong.
The balloon helped Evans make it to 32 weeks during the pregnancy. She had to deliver via C-section and send her baby to the NICU before having open-heart surgery.
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