Day 9
Surgery...
We just left Allison at surgery for her Arteriogram, possible angioplasty and renal vein sampling. A difficult morning for us... :( But we know she is in good hands and are as comfortable as we can be with Dr. Vo performing the procedure.... She is our little girl though...
The procedure... Dr. Vo will enter her artery at her left groin with a catheter and move up to her kidneys. He will inject some dye with this to help see the small artery branches and then take a few pictures to hopefully find where the artery branches are narrowing going into the kidney. If he cannot see any narrowing (it does not necessarily mean that it does not exist, there is still the possibility that it is just too small to see at her age. If he does not see any narrowing he will then enter a vein and go in backwards to the kidney to take some blood samples coming out of both kidneys to analyze further. If he does find some narrowing he will then perfom angioplasty to fix the area. Should take 2 to 3 hours. Difficult for us to leave Ali there, but she is in good hands and hopefully we will have some more positve news when it is all done.
We did hear this moring from Matt that the renal scan she had yesterday with the radioactive dye showed everything to be ok. It specifically was looking for any scaring on either kidney and kidney production.
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