Medical City Children's Hospital (English)

On Friday December 12th, 2014 we met with Dr. Eric Mendeloff at Medical city children’s hospital in Dallas for yet another consultation. Medical city is the hospital we were initially referred to and where we met with the cardiologist. This hospital is a little smaller than Children’s medical center. We met with Dr. Mendeloff and he started describing the condition of our baby’s heart and how the surgery would be performed. He wanted to use a more aggressive approach to the surgery and perform the Norwood surgery 4-5 hours after our son is born. It would most likely be on a Monday and the whole team would be ready for the procedure. This is the more traditional way of doing it, as we have read on the internet. Since our son’s atrial septum is closed he wanted to go in and open that up as soon as possible and at the same time continue to perform the Norwood procedure. Dr. Mendeloff is a very experienced surgeon and have performed approximately 250 Norwood procedures under his career. He performs about 25 a year and has only lost one patient with similar problems as our son. He said that he had recently performed 2 successful surgeries similar to our son, with an intact atrial septum. We received a very good impression from Dr. Mendeloff and we liked the hospital. Now we will research our options and decide what surgeon to go with. Difficult decision ahead!