Cook Children's Heart Center
At Cook Children's Heart Center, you'll find top pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons with expertise in an extensive list of specialties and subspecialties. Our doctors are known for their ground-breaking surgical techniques and heart-mending technologies. And from newborns, infants and children to adults with congenital heart defects, you'll find that our focus is always on the one child, the one family, that matters most — yours. Click to learn more.
Cook Children's Heart Center
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February
19,
2020
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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,” Martin, 21 years old, …
February
28,
2019
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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 …
July
05,
2018
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10:52 AM
America/Chicago
For 100 years Cook Children's has built its reputation on taking care of kids who needed help the most. Perhaps no department is an example of that reliability and stability as the Heart Center Program. The physicians within the program are a …
March
05,
2018
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15:49 PM
America/Chicago
Cook Children's 3D aPPROaCH Lab
The new three-dimensional lab for the planning and printing of congenital heart disease (3D aPPROaCH Lab) uses advanced technology to support pre-surgical planning and family education for patients with complex …
February
27,
2018
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15:50 PM
America/Chicago
By Kelly Wooley
When Patti Wilson was pregnant with her daughter Melanie in 1980, health care and technology looked a whole lot different than it does today.
Routine sonograms did not exist and there was no way for expectant mothers to know …
February
02,
2018
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10:00 AM
America/Chicago
Ashleigh Wilford can’t help herself. She bursts into tears every 15 minutes or so. She’s not crying tears of sadness. She’s crying tears of joy and an overabundance of the memories how far her little boy has come since her son's heart surgery …
January
09,
2018
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16:32 PM
America/Chicago
For most of the first 20 years of his life, Michael Jankowiak never played ball or even owned a toy. His debilitating cerebral palsy wadded his fingers into a tight fist. He barely moved his hands, except to drive his electric wheel chair.Then, …
May
15,
2017
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14:41 PM
America/Chicago
A 16-year South Carolina boy collapsed in a classroom and died from drinking too much caffeine, according to the Richland County, SC coroner.
The official cause of death for Davis Allen Cripe was a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a …
May
02,
2017
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10:58 AM
America/Chicago
Nothing had gone as Jordan and Katie Guidry planned following the birth of their son, Waylon.
Before Waylon could receive the heart surgery he so badly needed, his parents learned their surgeon was leaving the area. The Guidrys were suddenly …
