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Austin Thomas Erb

Conquering CHD

He was diagnosed with a butterfly vertebrae, kidney fullness, sacral dimple, and several heart defects (right aortic arch, VSD, and ASD). However, at the time, we did not know he also had a very rare isolated left pulmonary artery (causing PPHN) as this was hard to detect on the ultrasound and would later be detected at his cath.