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Climb Mount Kinabalu Medical History Before discovery Pre-surgery briefing Surgery Day 2006 1st Operation @ GOSH 2nd Pre-Operation Check 2nd Operation @ GOSH Fruits picking Amelia with little friends Fun playing scooter Playing on the beach Painting experience

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity featured Amelia's story in their Valentine Day 2011 fundraising project.

 
Latest Cardiology News : Generic Versions Of Blood Thinning Plavix Approved By FDA      Some "Good" Cholesterol May Be Bad For Heart      Rare DNA Variations May Be Responsible For Differences In Susceptibily To Heart, Lung And Other Disorders      For Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, One Type Of Open Heart Surgery Is Safer Than The Other      Running Marathons - Death Risk Low, Higher Among Men      

Welcome to Amelia Lee Website

 

This website is created to share experiences with families and friends about a little girl named Amelia Lee who was born with a congenital heart defects called Tetralogy of Fallot, her physical development, symptoms, on-going medicals attentions and so on.

Amelia Lee is now 5 years old and she goes to school; play with other kids and learning new things every day.

Amelia was born on 06 December 2005 at one of the hospitals in North London in the United Kingdom. Her heart problem was not detected until she was 6 weeks old. The doctor said she has a loud systolic murmur. Since then Amelia’s heart condition was being monitored by a local Hospital in North London and also Great Ormond Street (GOSH), the Children Hospital in Central London, UK.

Amelia started showing signs of bluish-purple skin from crying and feeding from three months old onwards and the frequency of the blue baby symptoms which made her sick increases to the point she had difficulty to keep food down her stomach and She had had her first heart surgery when she was 6 months old, on 23 May 2006 at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). She stayed for two weeks at GOSH after the surgery.

The trickiest task for mummy and daddy before Amelia’s surgery was that of to make sure she puts on as much weight possible and it was very interesting to hear from other parents of different methods they used to help their babies to gain weight.

After the surgery, the  Children Hospital in London, GOSH continues to monitor her heart development and she still has pulmonary obstruction in her heart which was removed surgically in June 2009.

The information on this website is compiled by the parents of Amelia Lee and is updated frequently. We hope that this website has provided hope to parents that having a child with similar heart problems as Amelia.

Amelia's parents welcomed parents to contact them for further information about Amelia's development.

The use of the information on this website for research or commercial reason is prohibited.

 

 

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Generic Versions Of Blood Thinning Plavix Approved By FDA Sun, 20 May 2012 08:00:00 PDT
Generic versions of blood-thinning medication - Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) - have been approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Clopidogrel bisulfate reduces the likelihood of blood platelets clumping together and forming clots in blood vessels, resulting in a lower risk of stroke and heart attack...

Some "Good" Cholesterol May Be Bad For Heart Sun, 20 May 2012 06:00:00 PDT
It appears that in some cases, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, the so-called "good" cholesterol, does not protect against heart disease, and may even be harmful. A new study suggests a subclass of HDL that carries a particular protein is bad for the heart. Previous studies have shown that high levels of HDL cholesterol are strongly linked to low risk of heart disease...

Rare DNA Variations May Be Responsible For Differences In Susceptibily To Heart, Lung And Other Disorders Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
One-letter switches in the DNA code occur much more frequently in human genomes than anticipated, but are often only found in one or a few individuals. The abundance of rare variations across the human genome is consistent with the population explosion of the past few thousand years, medical geneticists and evolutionary biologists report in the advanced online edition of Science...

For Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, One Type Of Open Heart Surgery Is Safer Than The Other Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT
One type of open heart surgery is likely safer than the other for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). Open heart, or coronary artery bypass, surgery can be done two ways: on-pump or off-pump, depending on whether the patient is put on a heart-lung machine...

Running Marathons - Death Risk Low, Higher Among Men Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:00 PDT
In recent years, the popularity of marathons has grown significantly and although the risk of dying during a marathon or soon after is extremely low - about 0.75 per 100,000 - men are two times more likely to die than women, say researchers at John Hopkins University School of Medicine. In addition, the number of individuals to complete grueling 26...

 
 
 
 

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We are raising money for registered charities that work hard to help children with congenital heart problems.


Contributions made by the sponsor together with parents of Amelia Lee:

  • 2010 Bupa London 10000 - Raised £537.17 for The Sick Children Trust.
  • British Heart Foundation Hyde Park Jogs 2010 - Raised £45.
  • 2011 Adidas Women's 5k Challenge on 11.09.2011 at Hyde Park London. Raised £15. for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Charity.
  • Climb Mount Kinabalu expedition on 1 December 2011 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Raised £190.25 so far.