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January 31, 2019

Transplant Patient’s Mother Becomes Mayo Volunteer

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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, and volunteering her time at her home away from home.

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Tags: dextrocardia with situs inversus, heart failure, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Sisters Crossing Gift Shop, volunteer


November 15, 2018

“Heart Families” Organize Toy Drive for Hospitalized Kids

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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 at Mayo Clinic, where donations from Rippy’s annual toy drive end up.

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Tags: Congenital Heart Defect, heart transplant, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Ronald McDonald House


November 6, 2018

Corn Palace Goes Red for Kadie

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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 Kadie as she received a heart transplant.

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Tags: Dr. Brooks Edwards, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


August 2, 2018

Transplant Patients With Similar Journeys Meet at Mayo

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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, their paths had never crossed.

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Tags: cardiology, Dr. Joseph Dearani, heart transplant, Kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic in Rochester


February 27, 2018

Ireland’s Hope Gives Hope — and Help — to Families Facing Pediatric Heart Transplant

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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 they need financial assistance.

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Tags: Congenital Heart Defect, Dr. Jonathon Johnson, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Children's Center


October 10, 2017

Fifteen Years Later, Transplant Patient and His Surgeon Reunite at Mayo Clinic

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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 them recently had a chance to meet again.

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Tags: Dr. Si Pham, Heart attack, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center


September 7, 2017

Unexpected Reunion: Transplant Patient Records Heartbeat as Gift to Donor Family

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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 a recording of her donor’s heartbeat. 

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Tags: heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, Mayo Clinic Rochester


July 27, 2017

Daughter’s Transplant Experience Inspires Mother to Work for Mayo Clinic

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It was a Friday in late April when Lindsey Hale made a phone call that would change the course of her life — and her daughter Jesslynn’s life — forever.

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Tags: heart transplant


February 7, 2017

Students Rally Around Classmate After Her Heart Transplant

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Kiarra Dixon was just six months old when she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. Those were big words — and a big diagnosis — for such a little girl. “It took me years to learn how to say that,” Kiarra, now a seventh-grader at Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth, Minnesota, recently told FOX 21-News. […]

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Tags: dilated cardiomyopathy, heart transplant


January 31, 2017

After Transplant, a Gift From the Heart Honors Mother’s Lost Son

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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, who passed away in January 2014. “He was a free spirit. He loved the outdoors. He was a genuinely happy person.” He was also a registered organ donor, something he […]

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Tags: cardiology, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Health System


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