We have performed more kidney transplants on children than any other doctors in the Western United States


We have performed more kidney transplants on children than any other doctors in the Western United States
Brayden McQuillan, now 3 months old, had a ventricular assist device implanted on his 18th day of life to help his failing heart pump blood.
On Friday, November 11, we announced a record month for transplant volume and on the same day, a cover story was published in the Silicon Valley Business Journal exploring the Center’s ascendance as the leading transplant program in the region.
Fifty Stanford Children’s Health transplant patients are spending the week at camp having fun while still getting the medcial care they need. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is a national leader in pediatric organ transplantation. We sponsor this camp to give kids who have received a transplant a chance to enjoy being children and to connect with other kids like them.
April is Donate Life Month, and 14-year-old Sina Sulunga-Kahaialii of Hawaii is living proof that organ donation saves lives. She recently received a kidney transplant at our hospital due to chronic renal failure.
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.
Siblings Dominic and Julia Faisca had a rare kidney disease that stunted their growth. Thanks to our top-ranked transplant teams, the kids are now back home in Hawaii and “growing like weeds,” according to their doctor.
A Minnesota doctor diagnosed Katie Grace, now 12, with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension “IPAH,” at only 5 years old, and didn’t expect her to live. But the spunky lover of swimming beat the odds of that diagnosis, and received a rare heart-lung transplant in June.
On July 30, the San Francisco Giants held their 17th Annual Organ Donor Awareness Day. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has been a part of this event for several years. It’s an opportunity for community to celebrate the lives that have been saved through organ donation