Cardiac Center Patient Stories

A baby is given a second chance at life with an innovative bridge to transplant performed only at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and few other institutions.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Pulmonary Vein Stenosis (PVS) Program treats a baby’s severe PVS with medication typically used to treat cancer.

A seemingly benign heart murmur after birth prompts a newborn’s parents to pursue diagnosis and treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

A young adult with CHD pursues her passion, supported by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Fontan Rehabilitation, Wellness, Activity and Resilience Development Program.

Experts from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia performed lifesaving fetal open heart surgery to remove a tumor growing on Arley’s heart.

CHOP’s Cardiac Center makes history when Dr. Katsuhide Maeda implants a MASA polymeric pulmonary valve in a patient’s heart to treat congenital heart defects.

Stephanos was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect in utero and had three surgeries before he turned 3. Thanks to the Fetal Heart Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Stephanos is now a 6-year-old who loves Legos and sports, and swings a mean golf club.

Born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Thomas had a 50% chance of making it to his first reconstructive heart surgery. CHOP helped him beat those odds.

CHOP’s Cardiac Center forges a creative, comprehensive care plan for a transplant patient with multiple congenital heart defects.

When their son is born with a complex congenital heart defect, a Lehigh Valley family turns to CHOP for care.