heart transplant
Kim Van Roekel is no stranger to Mayo Clinic. She’s spent more than a year in Rochester awaiting a heart transplant for her daughter, Becca,[...]
Linsey Rippy tends to go overboard when it comes to toys around the holiday season, which is a good thing for children in the hospital[...]
Although Kadie Neuharth was 1,400 miles away, the Corn Palace in her hometown of Mitchell, South Dakota, glowed red as a sign of love for[...]
Stefani Pentiuk Thompson and Alyssa Sandeen have been Mayo patients since childhood, each needing a heart transplant and then a kidney transplant. Until this summer,[...]
Families of children who need a heart transplant are faced with many challenges, but thanks to Ireland's Hope, they now have somewhere to turn when[...]
It had been 15 years since Tom Manuel had a heart transplant, but he never forgot the name of his transplant surgeon. The two of[...]
When Mayo Clinic heart transplant patient Alyssa Sandeen met her donor’s mother for the first time, she brought the perfect gift: a teddy bear with[...]
It was a Friday in late April when Lindsey Hale made a phone call that would change the course of her life — and her[...]
Kiarra Dixon was just six months old when she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. Those were big words — and a big diagnosis — for[...]
Nick Pollino never met a stranger. In his eyes, everyone was a friend. "Nick saw only the good," Debbie Pollino says of her only child,[...]