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an extreme caseBut Lowery's condition is an extreme case. According to Robert "Jake" Jaquiss, chief of Arkansas Children's Hospital's pediatric cardiovascular surgery program, chances of a newborn with the same condition are less than onetenth of 1 percent. Jaquiss' six-hour procedure to replace Lowery's faulty heart valve in July 2006 - graphically detailed in the episode of Surgery Saved My Life - is one of four major operations Lowery has undergone at Children's Hospital to correct her abnormalities. "Her heart," Jaquiss said, "is as backwards as it can be." But that hasn't stopped the 5-9, 120-pound Lowery from living like most other teenage girls. It didn't stop Lowery from becoming the greatest female high jumper Bryant has produced, either. "It's remarkable what she's done," Jaquiss said. "One of the things you think about as to why she has been so successful is maybe she is such a determined young woman. She started off with some disadvantage that her personality, her desire to overcome what other people viewed as a handicap, really gave her an extra drive." As a junior at Bryant in 2007, Lowery set a school record in the high jump (5-3) when she won the Class 7A/6A/5A indoor state championship. She broke her school record last spring in the Yellowjacket Relays at Sheridan (5-4). Lowery had been active in dance, soccer and basketball before migrating to track and field as an eighth-grader at Bryant Junior High. Initially, Lowery was a sprinter. "I wasn't good at it," Lowery said with a laugh. "Slow. Out of shape. Really don't like to run. Just wondering why I did this." When the team needed high jumpers for the first meet of the season, Lowery volunteered and cleared 4-0 in a practice attempt. She jumped 4-8 in her first meet and had a best of 5-0 as a ninthgrader - a height good enough to score in most high school meets - and 5-1 as a sophomore. "We always tried to treat her like a normal kid," said Lowery's father, John. "Even when she was younger, she still ran up and down the soccer field. Had to breathe a little harder and took a little more effort. But it never slowed her down. I would still yell at her to hustle. I don't think her heart problems ever came into the equation." Allison Lowery was born Sept. 30, 1989, in El Dorado, the first child of John and Tara Lowery. John, a veterinarian, works at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Tara is a pharmacist at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Central in Little Rock. The couple is raising three other children in Alexander, a small community just southwest of Little Rock: Jonathon, 16; Joshua, 14; and Anna, 11. None have heart problems. "Usually, that's the case," Jaquiss said. "It's very uncommon to have more than one family member with this condition." Neither Jaquiss or Frazier said they know why Allison Lowery, a seemingly healthy 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth, became the train wreck - other than terrible luck. There is no history of heart problems in either of Lowery's parents. "In most cases, there's not a genetic cause," said Frazier, also medical director of the cardiac transplantation program at Children's Hospital. "There is some percentage, but in her case this was just really an accident of nature." Lowery had her first heart surgery at 4 months (to shunt blood to her lungs) and first major surgery at 16 months. Because surgical techniques weren't as advanced in the early 1990s, and because of Lowery's age, her treatments had to be done in stages, Frazier said. "We couldn't go in there and fix her heart from the very beginning because she was so small," Frazier said. "But our goal was to keep her out of heart failure and keep her from being so blue, with having too little oxygen in her blood, so that she could grow and develop, but yet that ultimately we would be able to do a reparative operation." Surgery at 16 months patched the holes in Lowery's heart and inserted a conduit from her superior ventricle to her pulmonary artery.
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