Mar 01, 2021
When a baby arrived at Children’s National Hospital with a critically underdeveloped heart, it was clear to her care team that she needed surgery. But they had a dilemma: At less than 6 pounds, she wasn’t strong enough to undergo surgery but probably wouldn’t survive without it.
The solution was a stent, a tube the width of a toothpick. It would be inserted through an artery in her leg, maneuvered into a...