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Patient Stories

Baby is First Patient in Missouri to Receive Berlin Heart

McKenzi Carmack's face has magical powers. When she widens her saucer-blue eyes to a full twinkle, and adds the toothy ...

Patient Stories

Baby Anna - Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Baby Anna spent the first few weeks of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children's ...

Patient Stories

Asher's Heart

Amanda delivered her baby, Asher, four weeks early. Weighing just 4 pounds, 7 ounces, he was quickly transferred to St ...

Patient Stories

Anthony Bechelli - Singing a Survivor's Tune

Anthony Bechelli’s heroes are musicians like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. He’s a musician who appreciates the classics. ...

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Adiba - The "picture" of success

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's the case, one of Adiba Islam's most recent masterpieces ...

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600 Better Lives -- Sara Kate Helps Begin 12 Years

In 1987 at the University of Virginia, pediatric neurosurgeon T.S. Park, MD, sought to decrease the cerebral palsy spasticity of ...

Patient Stories

Epilepsy Should Never Interrupt Swim Class - Elsie Lastrina

After in-depth testing, a review of Elsie’s case by the Epilepsy Board of the Washington University Pediatric Epilepsy Center at ...

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Epilepsy Should Never Interrupt a Birthday - Jakrii Pearson

When Jakrii Pearson was almost 3, he began having seizures. Washington University neurologists at St. Louis Children’s Hospital discovered he ...

Patient Stories

Emery's Second Chance: How An Organ Donor Saved Her Life

Even though Crissy Patterson was a first-time mom, as a nurse, she knew there was something not-quite-right about her newborn ...