Vol. 128, No. 91 Thursday, February 14, 2019
OPINION
SPORTS
ARTS & CULTURE
Valentines’s Day pushes relationships on children
The Rams basketball players CSU loves most
Best Valentine’s Day songs for perfect harmonies
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Associate Professor of cardiology Dr. Brian Scansen examines Logan, a fostered puppy diagnosed with pulmonic valve dysplasia. Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital will be performing a surgery to repair Logan’s heart in April. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY MANWEILER
CSU vets give bucket list puppy new chance at life By Charlotte Lang @chartrickwrites
What’s better than checking “get 100 hugs” off of your bucket list? Getting a second chance at life. Logan, a foster puppy diagnosed with pulmonic valve dysplasia, is coming to Colorado State University where the Veterinary Teaching Hospital
believes they may be able to perform a surgery to repair Logan’s heart. Logan became a viral story after Rescued Hearts Northwest posted their hopes of allowing him to “experience anything and everything a puppy would ever want to experience,” creating a bucket list for the puppy. After receiving one preliminary procedure that didn’t go as
expected, Logan will be returning in April for another surgery to try and save his life. Associate Professor of cardiology Dr. Brian Scansen reached out to Rescued Hearts Northwest after families of patients he had treated reached out to him with links to Logan’s story and questions about if there was anything he thought could be done to help the dog.
“I contacted the rescue via email and asked to review (Logan’s) medical records,” Scansen said. “Following that, I discussed his case with them via phone and suggested there may be treatment options available based on what I could determine from their records.” Scansen said that Logan has a severely malformed heart. The right side of his heart has two
valves that formed abnormally— the pulmonary valve and the tricuspid. The more severe of the two, the tricuspid valve, will require open-heart surgery to repair. “As open-heart surgery carries moderate risk and is better performed when the dog is closer to full size, we hoped to
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