HEALTH COACH - What is Fallot's Tetralogy, the heart condition that afflicts the son of Jimmy Kimmel? Jimmy Kimmel's voice cracked as he spoke of "terrifying" moments after his son's birth when doctors Discovered that the newborn had a heart defect and needed immediate surgery. "They found that Billy was born with, um, heart disease," Kimmel said in tears Monday night on her ABC show late at night. "Uh ... something is called Fallot's Tetralogy with a pulmonary atresia." "It's hard to explain," he said. "Basically, the pulmonary valve was completely blocked and it has a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of its heart." Host "Jimmy Kimmel Live" opened its show on A very serious note, telling the audience of the studio and to the viewers at home: "I have a story to tell about something that happened to our family last week." It began to s 39 Immediately stifle and apologized saying, "I'm sorry. You know, I try not to become emotional, but it was a scary story. And before you get in, I want you to know that it has a happy ending, okay? So when I say this, do not worry too much. Leave it for me. Kimmel added that his wife, Molly, gave his second child on April 21, a boy named Billy. As Emily Yahr of the Washington Post said: Everything first seemed normal, until a few hours later, when a nurse discovered that he had a heart murmur and noticed that her skin was a little purple. Kimmel described the Terror to watch a group of very nervous doctors and nurses who are trying to figure out what is wrong with his newborn baby. "Finally, they told him that Billy was born with heart disease and would immediately need to # Kimmel became public with his staff at a time when the Republicans of the House are debating the reduction in the number of cases in which they have been reduced, and the number of cases in which they have been reduced. [An emotional Jimmy Kimmel discusses newborn son’s heart disease, makes passionate health-care plea] Of the pre-existing conditions clause of Obamacare. "Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son, there was a good chance that you could never get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel said on its show. "You were born with a pre-existing condition, and if your parents did not have medical insurance, you might not even live long enough to be denied due to a pre-existing condition." [1945912] End In the evening, Jimmy Kimmel made an emotional plea to lawmakers to finance health care expenses for pre-existing conditions on May 1. Kimmel tore up while discussing his heart condition of his newborn son Billy on his show. Fallot tetralogy is a rare congenital heart disease characterized by four main problems, including a hole in the wall between the lower chambers of the heart, By changing the normal blood flow to the body, according to the American Heart Association. The National Institutes of Health claim that the condition occurs in about five out of 10,000 babies. The condition includes stenosis of the pulmonary valve, in which the pulmonary valve is strangled, thereby limiting blood flow to lungs; Primary aorta, in which the aorta is poorly positioned; Right ventricular hypertrophy, causing thickening of the right ventricular muscle wall; And intercultural communication ventricular, characterized by the hole between the lower chambers, according to the Mayo Clinic. On Monday night, Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon who was already scheduled to appear on the Kimmel show, explained more about the cardiac defect affecting the newborn. Oz showed an animation of a human heart in which a wall separates the two lower chambers. "When this wall is missing, because this muscle between the two main chambers is not formed, but because of this, these tubes - the blue tube takes dirty blood in the lungs, the red tube takes blood Clean in your brain and everywhere else - they can no longer discriminate between what the blood enters them, "he said. When dirty blood mixes with clean blood, Oz said, the baby can become blue. And that is exactly what happened when Kimmel 's son was born. "He seemed to be a normal and healthy baby until about three hours after his birth," Kimmel said on Billy. "We were out of the birthing room, we went to the recovery room, our whole family was there, we introduced her to her 2 and a half year old sister, and she was cute with him. My wife was in bed relaxing, when a very attentive nurse ... checked and heard a whisper in her heart, which is common with newborn babies. She also noticed that it was a little purple, which is not common.My wife and I assumed that it would be nothing, Our daughter also had a heart murmur But Kimmel said that doctors and nurses quickly started climbing into the hospital room. "They determined that he was not receiving enough oxygen in his blood, He told the doctors. "They did an x-ray and determined that his lungs were fine, which meant that s The heart was not. " The newborn was taken by ambulance to the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, where he underwent open heart surgery to repair" L & One of two defects in his heart, "said Kimmel. Billy Kimmel, the day of her open heart surgery. Kimmel said the surgeon "did some sort of magic that I could not even begin to explain". "The operation was a success. It was the longest three hours of my life, but it was a success, "he said, as the crowd beat and shout." They did not do it all; He will have to have another heart operation open three to six months to close those holes, but they wanted to wait until it was bigger. And then, he will have a third procedure, I hope, non - invasive, some time maybe in his teens, to replace the valve that he has now. " Kimmel then showed the viewers several images of the Gem Dilemma.
