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Even before Angelique Garcia was born, doctors at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles knew she had a severe form of congenital heart disease called complete atrioventricular canal defect (CAVC), thanks to

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The Ross procedure offers children the opportunity to have an aortic valve replacement that is their own valve: the pulmonary valve.

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