Roseville Baby Battles Rare Heart Defect at UCSF Children’s Hospital
ABC News 10 - Sacramento - Oct 08, 2007
The Smiths were referred to Anthony Azakie, MD, surgical
director of the UCSF Pediatric Heart Center at UCSF Children's
Hospital, and baby Joshua Robert was delivered on September 17.
Within hours of his birth, Joshua underwent the first and riskiest
of several necessary open heart surgeries to reconstruct his heart.
Two more open heart surgeries will be scheduled before his third
birthday, and he may eventually need a heart transplant, but he is
doing well after the first surgery.
