Stanford Heart Team Keeps Extremely Ill Baby Alive With Finesse and Teamwork
Girl faces quadruple threat—a viral illness, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and a rare heart defect—and prevails.
Girl faces quadruple threat—a viral illness, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, and a rare heart defect—and prevails.
A multispecialty Stanford heart team takes heroic measures to ensure a good outcome for a complex heart transplant.
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.
Not the youngest, but possibly the smallest baby in the nation to receive an ICD.
Joey was born with several congenital heart defects, including a large ventricular septal defect (VSD), severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, and a coarctation of his aorta.