https://youtube.com/watch?v=fXMQUfxoUFg This past weekend, baby Poppy Dahl from Belgrade, Mont., celebrated her 6-month birthday. This was a major milestone day for Poppy and her family – Poppy survived and is now home with her family after fighting for her life due to a life-threatening heart condition, hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She was diagnosed with the […]
In a northern California suburb in 1999, Kaitlin Burns was born very sick, that much was certain. She was extremely lethargic, vomited non-stop and soon wouldn’t eat anything. When her family finally received a diagnosis two weeks after her birth, the news was devastating. Kaitlin was diagnosed with propionic acidemia, a rare, inherited metabolic disorder that affects […]
In one five-day span this September, four patients – one teenager and three critically ill infants – received life-saving heart transplants at Seattle Children’s. For four families, the week meant the end of an agonizing wait and the start of a new life. To perform four transplants in five days is very unusual, says Dr. […]
