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Peter Munk Cardiac Centre
Heart two heart: A family affair
ill to be considered for a
heart transplant. Jason had
cardiomyopathy, a condition
that inhibits the pumping of
blood to the heart.
But he wasn’t the only one in
the family with heart trouble.
“One day, Jason’s wife came
to me and said she was very
worried about Jason’s mother
as well, because each day that
she came to see her son, she
got angina,” Dr. Yau said of
Jason’s mom, 60-year-old
Lien Truong. That worry had
an immediate impact on the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre’s thoracoabdominal aneurysm team is made
15-year veteran surgeon. up of Srinivas Coimbatore, Valerie Cunningham, Dr. Thomas Lindsay,
Dr. Maral Ouzounian, Massimiliano Meineri and Paul Murphy.
“I started to become more (Photo: PMCC)
worried for her. I wouldn’t want
her to have a heart attack
when visiting her son,” he said. “I was a bit surprised at the more routine than her son’s),
Lien Truong, centre, with her son, Jason Truong, right, each had heart surgery performed only days apart ‘Exceedingly rare’ beginning,” he said. Jason asked how long it would
by the same surgeon, Dr. Terrence Lawrence Yau, at left. (Photo: TGWHF) Lien was slated to have a “That is the only situation that be until he had a new heart.
triple bypass at another I’ve been involved in where we “I told him there’s nothing
The son was “phenomenally to replace his lungs. We Truong would somehow turn hospital. Her procedure and had a mother and son in the we or you can do to change
sick,” Dr. Terrence Lawrence thought there was a high the corner. ensuing recovery would have hospital at the same time for when it’s going to happen,” Dr.
Yau recalled. “His lungs probability that he would not The 39-year-old husband made visiting her son next heart surgery. It is exceedingly Yau said, adding that getting
failed, his liver failed and survive. “ and father of two had to impossible. So the family rare,” he said. the right size heart, the same
for a while we had him on With such a grim prognosis, been in the cardiovascular formally requested to have Rare, too, was what followed. blood type and the perfect
a circuit where he had two Dr. Yau, a heart surgeon at intensive care unit (CVICU) Lien’s procedure performed at match with the clock ticking –
artificial heart devices. Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, for more than a month the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre A few days after his mom’s (Continued on next page)
We even had one circuit and specifically by Dr. Yau. successful surgery (her’s was
and his team hoped Jason in the fall of 2013, too
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Heart two heart: A family affair
ill to be considered for a
heart transplant. Jason had
cardiomyopathy, a condition
that inhibits the pumping of
blood to the heart.
But he wasn’t the only one in
the family with heart trouble.
“One day, Jason’s wife came
to me and said she was very
worried about Jason’s mother
as well, because each day that
she came to see her son, she
got angina,” Dr. Yau said of
Jason’s mom, 60-year-old
Lien Truong. That worry had
an immediate impact on the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre’s thoracoabdominal aneurysm team is made
15-year veteran surgeon. up of Srinivas Coimbatore, Valerie Cunningham, Dr. Thomas Lindsay,
Dr. Maral Ouzounian, Massimiliano Meineri and Paul Murphy.
“I started to become more (Photo: PMCC)
worried for her. I wouldn’t want
her to have a heart attack
when visiting her son,” he said. “I was a bit surprised at the more routine than her son’s),
Lien Truong, centre, with her son, Jason Truong, right, each had heart surgery performed only days apart ‘Exceedingly rare’ beginning,” he said. Jason asked how long it would
by the same surgeon, Dr. Terrence Lawrence Yau, at left. (Photo: TGWHF) Lien was slated to have a “That is the only situation that be until he had a new heart.
triple bypass at another I’ve been involved in where we “I told him there’s nothing
The son was “phenomenally to replace his lungs. We Truong would somehow turn hospital. Her procedure and had a mother and son in the we or you can do to change
sick,” Dr. Terrence Lawrence thought there was a high the corner. ensuing recovery would have hospital at the same time for when it’s going to happen,” Dr.
Yau recalled. “His lungs probability that he would not The 39-year-old husband made visiting her son next heart surgery. It is exceedingly Yau said, adding that getting
failed, his liver failed and survive. “ and father of two had to impossible. So the family rare,” he said. the right size heart, the same
for a while we had him on With such a grim prognosis, been in the cardiovascular formally requested to have Rare, too, was what followed. blood type and the perfect
a circuit where he had two Dr. Yau, a heart surgeon at intensive care unit (CVICU) Lien’s procedure performed at match with the clock ticking –
artificial heart devices. Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, for more than a month the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre A few days after his mom’s (Continued on next page)
We even had one circuit and specifically by Dr. Yau. successful surgery (her’s was
and his team hoped Jason in the fall of 2013, too
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