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Team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, WashU Medicine Heart Center Perform First Pediatric “Domino” Partial Heart Transplant in the Midwest
With clinicians’ commitment to innovative care, the Heart Center has become one of only eight programs in the nation to ...
Care With Heart: When Their 2-Year-Old Needed a New Heart, One Family Found Hope Close to Home
In December 2022, David arrived at St. Louis Children’s Hospital carrying his beloved Cookie Monster stuffie. David, then just 2 ...
Heart Donation Gives Young Man New Life
For the first time in years, Landon Gardner doesn't struggle to breathe when he saddles his horse, Duke. ...
Youngest Heart Recipient at St. Louis Children's Hospital Celebrates 30 Years With Donor Heart
Brett Myers celebrates a huge milestone at the same time St. Louis Children's Hospital also marks an important achievement. ...
St. Louis Children’s Hospital Celebrates 500th Heart Transplant
In late January 2019, the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Heart Center was the first pediatric heart transplant program in the ...
Missouri 5-Month-Old Survives Heart-Lung Transplant
On May 23, cardiologists at St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s Heart Center performed the transplant on Jack, making him the youngest ...
Kelsey's Story
Kelsey and Matthew Mercer share how their son Lincoln inspired them to support other children and families in the heart ...
New Journey Begins with Heart-Lung Transplant
Read more about Ellie Bowman's struggle with DiGeorge Syndrome and her experiences with St. Louis Children's Hospital. ...
A 15-Hour Heart Transplant, Ryan’s Shot at a Normal Life
On August 15, 1994, Ryan Heller was born in Rockford, Illinois. About 12 hours after birth, Ryan was diagnosed with ...
