{"56487":{"#nid":"56487","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Prof. Ajit Yoganathan featured in Inside Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Every year, 36,000 U.S. children are born with heart defects, or abnormalities that keep their hearts from functioning properly, putting their lives at risk. Fixing these problems can mean complex, repeated surgeries and every case is unique. Now, a virtual tool is giving surgeons a new way to predict and improve the outcome for these tiny patients, before they ever get to the Operating Room.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Chapman is only two, yet she\u0027s already had two major operations to repair congenital defects in her heart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Didn\u0027t know nothing was really wrong with her until I took her in for a diaper rash,\u0022 Ashley Chapman, Georgia\u0027s  mother, told Ivanhoe. \u0022They thought they heard a heart murmur and they sent me to a specialist.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA successful surgery gave Georgia a second chance at life.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn complex pediatric heart surgeries, precision is key. That\u0027s where Georgia Tech biomedical engineers come in.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith an MRI image of the patient\u0027s heart, researchers apply the science of fluid dynamics, or how things flow, to first identify the patent\u0027s specific problem. The system shows how different surgical approaches change the patient\u0027s blood flow so the surgeon can see which approach would work best.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.ivanhoe.com\/science\/story\/2010\/05\/716a.html\u0027\u003EClick to View Video and Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Doctors Playing Doctor"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Every year, 36,000 U.S. children are born with heart defects, or abnormalities that keep their hearts from functioning properly, putting their lives at risk. Fixing these problems can mean complex, repeated surgeries and every case is unique. Now, a virtual tool is giving surgeons a new way to predict and improve the outcome for these tiny patients, before they ever get to the Operating Room.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Ajit Yoganathan featured in Inside Science"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-05-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9580","name":"heart defects"},{"id":"6156","name":"Yoganathan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}