Transplant Recipient Celebrates Impressive 40-Year ‘Heart-Aversary’ in a Remarkable Year for Stanford
Woman achieves 40-year anniversary of heart transplant with the same donor heart.
Woman achieves 40-year anniversary of heart transplant with the same donor heart.
Knowing what you may be carrying in your genes could literally save your or a family member’s life, including your child’s life.
One of Santa’s favorite elf received a Berlin Heart, a ventricular assist device (VAD) that acts as an external heart pump attached by tubes, which sustains a child whose heart may be too weak to work on its own. Of course, this version was shrunk down to elf size.
On World Heart Day, we asked our pediatric cardiologists to answer questions around exercise for their child with heart disease.