Articles tagged with 'heart surgery' | Checkup Newsroom

Checkup Newsroom (heart surgery)

2023
February
28,
2023
| 15:00 PM America/Chicago
By Ashley AntleThe newest generation of imaging tools and technology at Cook Children’s Medical Center’s three-dimensional lab for the planning and printing of congenital heart disease (3D aPPROaCH Lab) makes it possible for cardiac surgeons to see,
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2021
September
03,
2021
| 10:12 AM America/Chicago
“I just felt like I was coming home and I had full confidence everything was going to be okay,” Amber Bartek said with tears in her eyes.Home is many things for different people, but where most people feel ‘at home’ usually
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February
23,
2021
| 12:35 PM America/Chicago
“I’m so tough, not even a broken heart can stop me.” Those are words Tony and Ashlea Peña hope their daughter Sydni will always live by. Sydni is an energetic toddler with a warrior spirit. She loves to run, jump, and spend
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2020
February
19,
2020
| 09:39 AM America/Chicago
After waking up in a hospital bed at Cook Children’s Medical Center the day after his fifth open-heart surgery, Garrett Martin wondered if he made the right choice. “I had my chest bone ripped open. It’s going to hurt,”
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2019
February
28,
2019
| 11:39 AM America/Chicago
When Amy Suson began her journey with Cook Children’s Cardiology program more than 30 years ago, she never expected her baby daughter, Madilyn, would someday join her on a similar path. Amy was born with hypoplastic right ventricle, severe
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2017
March
07,
2017
| 10:11 AM America/Chicago
Nick Albus moves fast. After all, not even two heart surgeries can slow down the Kansas State, and Arlington Martin grad, sprinter down. Albus, 20 years old and a sophomore, underwent his first surgery at Cook Children’s when he was only
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