News and views from across Mayo Clinic
January 31, 2019
Transplant Patient’s Mother Becomes Mayo Volunteer
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
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
By In the Loop
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.
Tags: heart transplant
February 7, 2017
Students Rally Around Classmate After Her Heart Transplant
By In the Loop
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. […]
January 31, 2017
After Transplant, a Gift From the Heart Honors Mother’s Lost Son
By In the Loop
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 […]
Tags: cardiology, heart transplant, Mayo Clinic Health System
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