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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.
A Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric heart transplant patient is riding on the Donate Life Rose Parade float to raise awareness for organ donation. This is her story.
Stanford heart team combines two highly complex specialties in a novel PARplant procedure Santana Renchie… Read more »
Stanford doctors use uncommon practice to save Becker muscular dystrophy patient.
Resilient teen becomes Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s legendary 500th heart transplant.
COVID-19 is daunting for all parents, but even more so for parents of children with a heart condition.
Since 1991, the hospital and health system have logged more than 6.1 million clinic visits, 2041 solid organ transplants, and 129,574 births.
With his Stanford PACT team’s help, a young man reaches rare milestone by living with a VAD for 10 years.
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.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has been named a Most Innovative Children’s Hospital by PARENTS Magazine.
Hana, a heart patient at Packard Children’s, and her family meet the family of Leo, her heart donor.
Donate Life Month: Families share the challenges and victories of awaiting organ transplant.
Kirsten Brown is no ordinary teenager. This 16-year-old is a heart transplant patient, a stroke survivor – and a Nike patient-designer with a powerful message of hope and inspiration.
In her own words, a transplant patient’s personal essay: “I am the girl with a history of restrictive cardiomyopathy.”
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“Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do…” The recognizable Cops theme song is going to… Read more »
“Play Ball!!” Austin Salinas, age four, who is awaiting a kidney transplant at Packard Children’s, kicks off the annual Donate Life game with the SF Giants.
When Ben Thornton wheeled onto the court for the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program’s youth wheelchair basketball West Coast Conference Championship at Stanford, it was a game he was certain to play with heart — the same heart, in fact, that he received at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford nearly 12 years ago.
A rare heart support helped middle-schooler Ziyan Liu survive to transplant with a single ventricle heart.
On Saturday, MSNBC aired a two-hour documentary called “Heartbreak: Saving the Binghams”.
Early Wednesday morning, after 512 days on the transplant wait list, 8-year-old Gage Bingham became the third child in his family to receive a new heart.
The youngest of five kids in the Bingham family, 8-year-old Gage is the third of his siblings to suffer from a life-threatening heart failure condition known as dilated cardiomyopathy.
We introduced Hana Yago a few months ago when she was awaiting a heart transplant. Today, the Yago family of San Francisco are one step closer home and leaps and bounds closer to their “new normal.”
“When something like this happens, we’re prepared,” said Carlos Esquivel, MD. “It really shows the depth of the institution and our transplant programs.”
ABC 7’s Lilian Kim reports on heart transplant recipient Lizzie Johnson, 14, and her family, about receiving the ultimate gift for Christmas this year, a new heart and a second chance at life.
Lizzy Craze, 32, is the only heart transplant recipient in America, and likely the world, to survive 30 years with the same donor heart she received as a toddler.
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.
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.
