In child heart patients, novel approach improves symptoms of hazardous lymph blockage

Pediatric researchers have devised an innovative, safe and minimally invasive procedure that helps relieve rare but potentially life-threatening airway blockages occurring in children who had surgery for congenital heart defects. Physician-researchers developed new imaging tools to treat plastic bronchitis — in which abnormal circulation causes lymphatic fluid to dry into solid casts that clog a child’s airways.