Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine Patient Stories

Ian was born with a congenital heart defect called the transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Thanks to the cardiac team at CHOP, he’s now a healthy 15-year-old.

Born with tricuspid atresia, a congenital heart defect, Srishti had three open-heart surgeries at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect at 2 days old, Nora had open heart surgery a month later at CHOP's Cardiac Center.