A baby girl who has been living in a Chicago hospital with her parents for the last six months while waiting for a new heart finally received one last week.
Elodie Carmen Baker received a heart transplant at The Heart Center at Lurie Children’s Hospital on March 27. Elodie was about 7 weeks old when she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition in August 2021 called dilated cardiomyopathy. She had been on the waitlist for a new heart for over 200 days. Read the full story here.
A Flagstaff woman was reluctant to ask for a kidney donation because she didn’t feel worthy. Eventually she did ask. And rather than feeling guilty, she was surprised by how grateful she now is. Continue reading or listen to this story here.
Liver transplants save lives. I know because my life was saved by one.
As a liver transplant hepatologist, I’ve spent my career taking care of patients who are waiting for or have received a lifesaving liver transplant. But in 2002, my world was turned upside down: I was given the gift of life when I myself became a liver transplant recipient.
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If you play basketball for a prestigious program like the University of Southern California (USC) or professionally in China and Europe, it’s a pretty good bet you are an athlete at the top of your game.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is just not something that should rear its ugly head if your life is about proper nutrition, consistent exercise, and high-level competition.
Right?
Tiffany Archibald would beg to differ. Read more.
Adifficult day turned around for Dr. Dinee Simpson after she unexpectedly ran into a former patient of hers when she grabbed some coffee, as detailed in a now-viral tweet.
“Woman next to me stared at my ID badge and started to cry,” read Simpson’s tweet, which has more than 272,000 likes at the time of publication. “I did her liver transplant last year, she was so sick then. Today she had her hair did, makeup on, and looked FABULOUS.”
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A woman who donated her kidney to a complete stranger so her friend’s husband could receive a life-saving transplant from another donor has said the decision was a “no-brainer”.
Hayley McCarthy, 38, wanted to give one of her kidneys to Darrel Robinson but she was not a match. Read the full story.
In 2009, Sam Dey was working for General Motors and in India on business.
It was during that business trip that Sam started falling.
“I was collapsing and falling in these incredibly crowded streets of India,” says Sam. “I was falling everywhere, and people were always pouring water on my face to revive me.”
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Randy Hines was told in 2021 that, without a new heart, he would likely die within a year. Today, he feels like a new man.
Hines, 67, was an elementary school physical education teacher for Fort Wayne Community Schools, so health and fitness had always been important to him. But in his mid-50s he started noticing some changes. Read the full story.
A patient with disabilities can be denied life-saving organ transplants because of those disabilities, and parents often fear the worst. Families have won protections in many states — including 14 in the last year.
But more than three decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act — which prohibits discrimination based on a person’s disability — became federal law, advocates say inequities persist in health care. Read more.
MILWAUKEE – Glenn Stuckman of Plymouth celebrated a special anniversary Thursday – 25 years since he had a heart transplant.
Thursday, Stuckman went back to Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center where he had the procedure and met with Dr. John Crouch, the cardiothoracic surgeon who saved his life.
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