{"id":3439,"date":"2016-07-21T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/dr-nelson-leads-research-on-how-to-care-for-adults-whose-heart-defects-were-repaired-in-infancy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:20:53","slug":"dr-nelson-leads-research-on-how-to-care-for-adults-whose-heart-defects-were-repaired-in-infancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/dr-nelson-leads-research-on-how-to-care-for-adults-whose-heart-defects-were-repaired-in-infancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nelson Leads Research on How to Care for Adults Whose Heart Defects were Repaired in Infancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"internal-link\">Jennifer S. Nelson, M.D., M.S.<\/span>, a pediatric heart surgeon at UNC, started a multidisciplinary research program at UNC that is studying a common heart defect, Tetralogy of Fallot. Until the 1960s, babies born with this defect rarely survived infancy. Now, more than 80 percent of babies who receive surgery live to adulthood. Nelson and her colleagues are trying to figure out how best to care for these patients with repaired hearts, who are facing a whole new set of problems the world has never seen before. The research group received grant support and other help from the North Carolina Translational &amp; Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS).<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/news.tracs.unc.edu\/index.php\/translational-news\/nc-tracs-news\/759-healing-broken-hearts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in a story by Marla Vacek Broadfoot of NC TraCS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer S. Nelson, M.D., M.S., a pediatric heart surgeon at UNC, started a multidisciplinary research program at UNC that is studying a common heart defect, Tetralogy of Fallot. 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