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Patient Stories

Scoliosis Patient Gains Confidence After Spine Surgery

EJ is your typical 13-year-old boy. He loves playing video games, is an active swimmer, and enjoys riding around on ...

Patient Stories

Tiny Heart Receives Big Help

Aveion, 3, knows what he wants to be when he grows up. “He’s kind of obsessed with doctors right now,” ...

Mom Docs

What Is a Heart Murmur?

Heart murmurs are much more common in children than most people realize. The sound is simply the result of blood ...

News

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 ...

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Project Adam

Become a Heart Safe school In partnership with Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillators in Adams Memory), St. Louis Children’s Hospital can ...

Patient Stories

Small Patient, Big Breakthrough

When their son Jesse was diagnosed at 3 months old with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), Amanda and Ben knew there would ...

Patient Stories

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 ...

Patient Stories

Audrey’s Brave New Chapter: Young Patient Thriving After Heart Transplant

Molly has spent her entire career as a registered nurse at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University Heart ...

Patient Stories

The Best Father’s Day Gift Ever

On Father’s Day, families gather to celebrate dads. But for Monika and Michael, the holiday has taken on a whole ...