Pediatric heart transplant at Yale New Haven gave me my son back
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Yale New Haven Hospital photographed on Dec. 11, 2020.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media file photoShow MoreShow Less
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NEW HAVEN Alex Stephens is on his way back to being a football-playing teenager, with a new heart he received after seven weeks being watched closely in Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital.
The Oct. 23 surgery on Stephens, 17, was the first pediatric heart transplant since the children’s hospital was designated as a pediatric transplant center in 2019, as approved by the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network and overseen by the United Network for Organ Sharing, hospital officials said.