Four Decades of Saving Kids' Hearts: Stanford Children's Health Celebrates its 500th Pediatric Heart Transplant
STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanford Children's Health , with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford at its center, is celebrating its 500th pediatric heart transplant.
- STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanford Children's Health , with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford at its center, is celebrating its 500th pediatric heart transplant.
- This holiday season, 14-year-old Mackenzie Collins , the 500th Stanford Children's Health pediatric heart recipient, will be celebrating a healthy heart at home with her family.
- It took a multidisciplinary team of pediatric heart surgeons , transplant cardiologists, nurses , pediatric anesthesiologists , surgical technicians, transport, and transplant specialists to achieve the successfulsix-hour open-heart surgery transplant.
- 2020: Stanford Children's Health performed 24 heart transplants and implanted 18 ventricular assist devices , to extend patients' lives until they receive a donor heart.