New Type Of Surgery Used For Dog Attack Victim

A new kind of surgery is helping a Minnesota mother — who was attacked by her friend’s dogs — enjoy a normal life. A bulldog and a pit bull jumped Paula Ybarra last March. One dog bite tore an artery that never healed right. The tear in Ybarra’s artery caused strokes and could have lead to an aneurysm.  Her doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center decided to try something new. On Jan. 9, surgeons put a stent normally used in the heart into her neck. Now, 10 months after the animal attack killed her, Paula Ybarra has reason to smile.  She just had her final surgery on her road to recovery. “I’m just so happy that it’s over and everything turned out great,” said Ybarra. “In the past, we would have closed up this vertebral artery and allowed her to just live off one vertebral artery supplying the back of the brain,” said Dr. Vallabh Janardhan, of the Hennepin County Medical Center. However, the procedure would have left Ybarra with only one working artery to the back of her brain, which was an anxiety she didn’t want to live with.  So, she told her doctors to go ahead with the new surgery. The surgery resulted in closing the gap where the tear was and the artery began working like it was supposed to. “They’ve never done it.  Never done it before, but … I trusted my doctor.  Trusted him and I knew that I’d be alright,” said Ybarra. Just one day after surgery, Ybarra headed home to her three young girls.

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Fort Lauderdale to Pay $100,000 After Child’s Finger Crushed on a Park Seesaw

The family of a 4-year-old whose fingertip was crushed by a seesaw at Holiday Park won a $100,000 settlement from the city Tuesday. Monica Werner sued the city after her son, Marcel Levi, was injured on Dec. 29, 2006. He was at the park on Sunrise Boulevard with his father that day, and was playing with other children when his left index finger “got caught in the area where the springs are located” and was crushed, city documents say. The boy had two surgeries and ultimately lost the tip of his finger. The medical bills totaled $43,380, according to the city.

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The Citron Law Firm, P.A. (www.citronlegal.com) is a civil trial practice law firm that specializes in professional liability and injury cases, commercial and real estate litigation and family law matters.  The Citron Law Firm is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 707 S.E. Third Avenue, Sixth Floor – (954) 712-1686.