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Special thanks to ICUS Board Member Bev Gorman, the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, and speakers Cyndi Peterson and Pam Burgess.
By Dr. Orpheus Kolokythas
David is a 32-year old man with Down syndrome and a congenital ventricular septal defect, a cardiac abnormality. Despite technically successful cardiac surgery in childhood, David developed heart failure, chronic liver congestion and a chronic blockage of the portal vein, the main vessel draining the intestinal blood into the liver. Repeated fluid taps showed chylous ascites, a form of fluid buildup suggesting a lymphatic leak.
