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Heart / Cardiology
Two generations of CHOC heart families
Jasmine and Jennifer had heart surgery at CHOC when they were kids. Now, each of their kids are heart patients, too.
When the cardiologist becomes the patient — and parent
Dr. Anthony Chang had been a physician for 40 years — and had cared for thousands of medically complex children with fragile hearts — when his own child needed heart surgery. Around the same time, he became a heart surgery patient himself.
Milestone procedure saves preemie with complex heart disease
Baby Hope looked into her mother’s eyes and gurgled. Four days short of turning 9 months old, wearing a white onesie with the words “Best Gift Ever” on the front, she made more baby talk. “You’re always a big chatterbox – what are you saying?” her mother, Elizabeth “Becca” Wyneken, said as she smiled and […]
One nurse’s thank you letter to a former patient
The CHOC RN Residency Program is a 17-week program that is specifically customized to meet the requirements of the new nursing graduate to be successfully transitioned to becoming a professional pediatric nurse. Here, a recent RN Residency Program graduate pens a thank you letter to a patient she had the privilege of caring for during the RN Residency Program — one who impacted her as a nurse.
Quinn goes home, thanks to CHOC’s cardiac high-risk interstage program
Like most parents, when Erin and Ryan were pregnant with their first child, it was an exciting and precious time. However, for them, they knew this would be a high-risk process since Erin has Type 1 diabetes. Erin was seen regularly at University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center for checkups on her and the baby because of her T1D. At week 20, Erin went in for an anatomy scan of the baby. This […]
From CHOC mom to CHOC employee
Before Maria was a CHOC employee, she was a CHOC mom. Her son had heart surgery at just 2 days old.
