PORT ANGELES — Landon Smith, a 19-year-old from Port Angeles who was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, received a heart transplant this week. He had been on the transplant waiting list for ...
Doctors decided that Neil needed bypass surgery as soon as possible ... Once they rip your chest open, stop your heart and have you on a machine for four hours as they’re operating on you ...
The scare sent him to see Dr. Kevin Accola, a cardiothoracic surgeon at AdventHealth. Dr. Accola performed a transcutaneous aortic valve replacement, or TAVR procedure. It’s a minimally invasive ...