October 22, 2019
‘Feel the Beat’ Is About Hope, Healing and Camaraderie, and It’s Easy to Dance To
By In the Loop
Naomi Babcock took center stage at an event created to thank patients and their families for their contributions to HLHS research, showing others what someone living with the rare condition is capable of achieving.
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Tags: Brianna Tranby, HLHS, HLHS Consortium, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for HLHS
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.
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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
June 21, 2016
Mayo Researchers Use Stem Cells to Try and Heal Baby Lucas’ Heart
By In the Loop
Last July, Jennifer Gutman told Toledo, Ohio’s 13 ABC Action News that the day doctors diagnosed her unborn son, Lucas, with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, also known as HLHS, was “the worst day of her life.” The diagnosis came during what Jennifer and her husband, Brian, thought would be a routine 22-week ultrasound. The startling […]
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Tags: Dr. Timothy Nelson, hypoplastic left heart syndrome
December 4, 2014
An On-the-Field Heart to Heart
By In the Loop
To the casual onlooker, it probably looked like just another young fan getting a chance to meet a professional football player on the sidelines of TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis this past Sunday before the Carolina Panthers took on the Minnesota Vikings. But what young Ryder Smith and Panther’s tight end Greg Olsen shared in […]
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Tags: hypoplastic left heart syndrome
January 28, 2014
Not cutting this cord
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We’ll cut to the chase: Although the phrase “cutting the cord” is used to symbolize freedom, it seems that researchers these days are coming back to the cord – in a search for cures for diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, cerebral palsy and more. A recent story in The Wall Street Journal, in fact, suggests […]
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Tags: Dr. Tim Nelson, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Mayo Clinic Children's Center
September 25, 2012
Princess Ava of Des Moines
By In the Loop
Ava with Nurse Mary, who nicknamed her “Princess Ava of Des Moines.” Earlier this month, Brad Weitl and Christina DeShaw of Clive, Iowa, brought their twins, Ava and Aidan, home for the first time. It’s a traditional rite of parenthood. But for this family, it was a long time coming. As a story by […]
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Tags: Dr. Ben Eidem, Dr. Harold Burkhart, HLHS, hypoplastic left heart syndrome