After a long day of traveling, the World Children’s Initiative (WCI)team arrived in Uganda late Sunday evening for WCI’s fourth Clinical Service and Training Trip to the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) in Kampala, Uganda. Although we were all dealing with varying levels of jetlag, we were excited to get started on Monday morning. Our first…
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Title: Documentary III: WCI Project Heart Uganda A film by Tanuj Chopra of http://chopsfilms.com/ Musical score by Gingger Shankar of http://ginggershankar.com/
Sunday was the day the World Children’s Initiative team of pediatric cardiac catheterization specialists gave way to the surgeons. A combined team of pediatric cardiac surgeons from DC and the Uganda Heart Institute will spend the next week doing open heart surgery on patients. Some of the patients who had catheterization procedures last week to…
Saturday was the final day of cases for the combines World Children’s Initiative and Uganda Heart Institute cardiac catheterization teams. This was the day set aside to perform the most technically challenging procedures in the cath lab. These patients had pulmonary valve stenosis. This is a condition where the valve in the heart that separates…
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