Clark Ostrom was born in 2015 at simply 36 weeks. His mother, Carissa Ostrom, stated they’d no thought he had a bicuspid Aortic Valve and Aortic Stenosi coronary heart defect. He went by means of his first process and balloon valvuloplasty (a cath process the place they take a balloon and rip open the valve). Carissa then linked with close by American Household Kids’s Hospital in Madison and pediatric heart specialist Dr. Luke Lamers, who leads the pediatric catheterization staff.
Carissa adopted up with Dr. Lamers each six months. Dr. Lamers stated he stored a detailed eye on Clark’s coronary heart, and when Clark turned 5, they seen the balloon valve turning into extra dysfunctional. So, they determined to do a Ross process, primarily taking part in musical chairs with the valves in Clark’s coronary heart. They eliminated the aortic valve and exchange it with the pulmonary valve after which place a cadaver donor valve in for the pulmonary valve. It was a really lengthy 8-10 hour surgical procedure.
Clark ended up needing to return into surgical procedure to obtain a pacemaker. The pacemaker was positioned in his stomach; this occurs in pediatric sufferers to assist protect using the guts’s arteries for later use as an grownup. We let him play soccer, we let him wrestle together with his brothers, we let him do all these items {that a} regular child will get to do as a result of that’s undoubtedly the way you need him to be handled. Clark is now a cheerful, wholesome child rocking his scar and displaying everybody how he’s iron man.