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Thedurtysanchez t1_iva09l4 wrote

Reply to comment by rharvey8090 in During heart transplanting, how does the body survive before the heart is replaced? by harkhinz

I believe they do it for the newborns as well, but the variations may have been enough.

He was on bypass for his surgeries and even that lead the surgeons to let us know he is at higher risk for ADHD for some reason they don't fully understand.

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k9moonmoon t1_ivbgz4y wrote

I wonder if there's a physical causation or if it's just, kids that go through something like that are being closely monitored by parents as they grow and so symptoms for ADHD that might otherwise be overlooked get caught more? How common is an increase in ADHD in similarly expansive interventions in other kids? But bodies are so weird, it being a physical impact that will one day be understood exactly how it works, I'd believe.

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