Our Patients

At 4 years old, Eliot was the first patient at CHLA to receive Elevidys, a groundbreaking new gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The treatment has been a game changer for his health.

A medical odyssey with epilepsy led Lucia’s parents to CHLA, where they found the diet therapy treatment that Lucia’s brain needs to thrive.

Born with grave cardiac defects, Aaliyah was dying. A CHLA heart surgeon devised a way to keep her alive for close to 500 days until a donor heart was found.

At age 9, Wallie and Noah were facing osteosarcoma—and a surgery that would change their lives forever. There was only one way to get through it: together.

Diagnosed with liver disease at 2 months of age, Mia and her family turned to CHLA’s world-class pediatric Liver Transplant Program to save her life.

Experts at CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center remove a rare brain lesion in a 14-year-old boy.

Diagnosed with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, a middle schooler instantly grew 2 inches after the curve in her spine was straightened out.

Buoyed by his Children’s Hospital Los Angeles care team and a positive attitude, teen surfer Cole is back in the water after beating acute myeloid leukemia.

The partnership between an orthopedic surgeon and a neurosurgeon leads to phenomenal success reviving DJ’s disabled arm.

Kate, a 4 West nurse and cancer survivor herself, finds big and small ways to “go the whole nine yards” for her patients every day.