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.
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Boy Tames His Single Ventricle Condition With His Lion Heart
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health provides specialized heart care to give Judah the best possible outcome.
Girl Faces Open-Heart Surgery With Strength, Humor, and Grace
Elodie was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta—a rare heart defect that is present at birth but often does not create symptoms until later in life.
Santa’s Elf Brings Comfort and Cheer to Young Patients from the Heart
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.
Teen Basketball Player Saved by CPR Highlights Risk of Cardiac Arrest in Sports
Ryan Chian life was saved in part by teen siblings Ian and Molly Hanaray.
Baby MJ Battles an Extremely Rare, Strange Heart Defect and Wins
Stanford fetal heart, heart surgery and CVICU teams come together to treat baby with uncommon heart defect.
Baby With Challenging Tetralogy of Fallot Grows Into Healthy Toddler
Stanford Children’s heart doctors perform unifocalization to repair Hayden’s toF with pulmonary atresia and MAPCAs.
Three Innovations Shorten Heart Transplant Patient’s Wait Time
It started as a simple persistent wet cough, something Eloise (Ellie) McCloskey’s mom, Aubrey, noticed before spring break of second grade, and it quickly escalated from there. After a week in the hospital and an echocardiogram and tests, the family received the news. Ellie had dilated cardiomyopathy—a disease of the heart muscle—and her heart was slowly failing.
NICH Program Gives Parents of Medically-Complex Baby Wings to Fly
Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare (NICH) Program supports families of babies with chronic health needs.
Micropreemie Survives Lifesaving Heart Surgery for Rare Fetal Heart Tumor
Multispecialty clinical teams work together to save micropreemie.
Toddler Takes on Jungle Gym After Life-Changing Heart Reconstruction
Highly specialized Complex Biventricular Reconstruction Program offers exciting alternative for kids with single ventricle hearts.
Groundbreaking Heart-Lung Procedure Gives Toddler a Chance at a Full Life
Novel heart-lung procedure gives toddler a chance at a full life. Heart team combines two highly complex specialties in an unique surgical procedure.
Feisty Micropreemie With Heart Defect Beats Incredible Odds
Smallest baby at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to have heart stent placed for tetralogy of Fallot.
Heart Surgery Averts Transplant and Turns Teen From Blue to Pink
Family of teen was told she couldn’t be saved, but doctors at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health offered solutions.
Best Present Ever! New Heart for Baby’s First Birthday
Baby born with a very rare condition received expert care culminating with a heart transplant from one of the best heart teams in the country.
Boy Wrestles Tough Surgeries for Alagille Syndrome and Wins
A multidisciplinary approach pins down the best care for a complex, rare heart condition.
Thriving After A Devastating Heart Prognosis
A determined mom fights to find lifesaving treatment for her son’s Williams syndrome.
Half a Heart and a Whole Lot of Spirit
Patient with rare heart disease thrives thanks to a fighting spirit and a highly knowledgeable care team.
Congenital heart patient happy and healthy at 8 months
Lola is happy and healthy at 8 months after undergoing open heart surgery for a congenital heart defect.
A Valentine’s Day visit filled with heart
For Oakland Raiders cornerback TJ Carrie, Valentine’s Day has a special meaning – it is the anniversary of his open-heart surgery to repair what doctors describe as a one-in-a-million heart defect.
Pioneers of the Berlin Heart
For a child awaiting a heart transplant, the Berlin Heart offers a bridge to life. Packard Children’s helped bring this innovative device to pediatric patients in the United States, and achieved some of the early milestones for the most vulnerable patients.
Packard Children’s Ranked Among Nation’s Best
In the U.S. News & World Report publication of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2012-13,… Read more »
Three Days, Three Hearts
In an extremely rare three-day series of transplants in May, three young adults received new hearts at the Children’s Heart Center at Packard Children’s, including an extraordinarily uncommon double-organ heart and liver transplant.
