Heart Center

Recent news stories from Boston Children's Heart Center

Experimental surgery at Children’s Hospital gives girl life
March 26, 2013
WCVB-TV channel 5 profiled 9-year-old Boston Children's patient Alexa Rand, who was diagnosed in utero with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare condition that causes a portion of the heart to under develop. Boston Children’s Frank Cecchin, MD, talks about the surgeries that saved her life and how well she is doing today.

Two organs, one life saved
March 11, 2013
The Lowell Sun tells the story of four year-old Sofia Groff, who received a unique transplant at Boston Children’s in 2010 to treat her extremely rare medical condition, known as mid-aortic syndrome. In a transplant surgery recently described in the American Journal of Transplantation, Sofia received a new aorta and kidney. This was the first case to be reported where a length of aorta has been transplanted with a kidney in a child.

Cape Teen’s Heart Pump Making Medical History Before Transplant
March 6, 2013
WBZ-TV Channel 4 tells the story of 13 year-old Kyah DeSimone, who is the first patient discharged from Boston Children’s Hospital with a ventricular assist device, and the first child to return to school in North America with the device while awaiting transplant.