Belize Toddler Comes to Newark for Life-Saving Heart Surgery

Procedure Facilitated through Gift of Life NJ and RWJBarnabas Health and performed at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
NEWARK - Doctors from the Children’s Heart Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, part of the Children’s Health network of RWJBarnabas Health and one of the leading heart centers in the country and the only pediatric heart surgery center in New Jersey, performed life-saving surgery on a two-year-old patient suffering from a rare congenital heart disease. The surgery included a patch of the pulmonary artery.
Nyle Eck, a two-year-old from Belize, was born with a rare congenital heart disease called supravalvular pulmonary stenosis (SVPS), a narrowing of the artery located just above the pulmonary valve, which is the main artery that carries blood to the lungs. Nyle was first diagnosed in September 2022, when he was only three months old. With the help of the Gift of Life, NJ, a charitable organization with a mission to help save the lives of children with congenital heart defects around the world by providing resources to treat them, he was able to have a cardiac procedure a few months later in Belize, but his condition soon required a second more complex surgery not available in Belize.
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