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December 25, 2020
8-year-old Kaiden Barron had just one thing on his list for Santa this year.
“For Christmas I wanted everything to go back to normal,” said Kaiden.
That’s because as Christmas approached, Kaiden found himself, along with his family at Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.
A place, he’d already spent plenty of time. Kaiden was born with what’s known as Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, meaning the left side of his heart is underdeveloped. Doctors discovered this in Kaiden when he was just 4 days old.
That meant a series of heart surgeries for Kaiden, ending with what’s called a Fontan procedure.
Ten Years of Saving Hearts: Joe DiMaggio Children s Hospital Pediatric Heart Transplant Program Celebrates a Milestone
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During the past ten years, the lives of nearly 70 children and families have been forever changed through the efforts of the pediatric heart transplant team at Joe DiMaggio Children s Hospital. As the program celebrates a milestone anniversary, its medical professionals are focused on the next decade of life-saving impact.
“The most rewarding part for our work is being able to take a child and a family that is so encumbered by that child’s illness and carry them from a state of grief and uncertainty to a child’s state of wellness and the family’s state of joy and hope for the future.” - Dr. Maryanne Chrisant
Pediatric heart transplant at Yale New Haven gave me my son back
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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.