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A Surgeon’s Lifesaving Innovation Makes Heart Transplant Possible

January 21, 2025

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.

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Checking Up on Genesis a Year After Her Heart Transplant

October 4, 2022

The 2-year-old recently passed a major milestone, and her mother reports she is happy and thriving.

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Two Girls Named Genesis and the Day They Got New Hearts

February 12, 2022

How organ donations and a top-notch pediatric heart care team saved their lives.

Emme sitting at hospital bed table with her stuffed animal friends

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Emme Got a New Heart—and Made New Friends—at CHLA

November 12, 2021

Expertise and state-of-the-art technology helped Emme get a new heart at the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Announces New Heart Institute Faculty

September 9, 2021

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has expanded its Heart Institute medical team, adding three cardiologists and a cardiothoracic surgeon to its robust faculty roster led by Vaughn Starnes, MD and

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A Surgeon’s Lifesaving Innovation Makes Heart Transplant Possible

Checking Up on Genesis a Year After Her Heart Transplant

Two Girls Named Genesis and the Day They Got New Hearts

Emme Got a New Heart—and Made New Friends—at CHLA

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Announces New Heart Institute Faculty

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