Non-invasive heart valve replacement now offered at Dell Children’s

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Shorter recovery time for less money and with less pain. That’s what Dell Children’s Medical Center is offering by being the first hospital in Central Texas to offer Medtronic’s Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve.
The Melody valve is used to replace the pulmonary valve, between the right side of the heart and lungs, through a catheter placed in the leg.
Alyson Hunter, 13, was born with the most common complex congenital heart condition, a tetralogy of fa