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Donate Life Month: A perfusionist’s perspective
… when one is a member of a heart transplant team. Most people have never heard of a cardiovascular perfusionist, let … takes a village” couldn’t be more appropriate than when it comes to organ transplants. A heart transplant team consists … and pilots who take the procurement team to the organ donor sites across the country (often in the middle of the night), …
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Refractive Errors in Children What is normal vision? To understand how certain problems can affect your child's vision, it’s important to know how normal vision happens. For children with normal vision, the following things occur in this order: Light enters the eye through the
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Bone Marrow Transplants improve kids’ cancer outcomes
… Bone Marrow Transplants improve kids’ cancer outcomes Blog Bone Marrow Failure Bone Marrow Transplant … the program into allogeneic-related transplants for leukemia. By 2005 the first allogenic unrelated transplant … the team expanded into cellular therapy, becoming the first site in Arizona approved for the administration of the …
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Obesity in Children and Teens What is obesity in children and teens? Obesity is when a person has too much body fat. Without treatment, obesity can become a serious, long-term disease. What causes obesity in a child or teen? In many ways, childhood obesity is a puzzling disease
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Tricuspid Atresia What is tricuspid atresia? Tricuspid atresia (TA) is a heart defect present at birth (congenital). It occurs when the tricuspid valve doesn’t form, or only partly forms. Normally the tricuspid valve is located between the right upper chamber (atrium) and the
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Hypothalamic hamartomas are rare, benign (non-cancerous) tumor-like formation on the hypothalamus, the area at the base of the brain that controls the production and release of hormones by the pituitary gland. The hypothalamus is a small but crucial part of the brain that
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Phoenix Children’s is one of a small number of centers in the United States that have integrated intensive care multimodal monitoring (MMM) into our patient care, setting us apart from other neurocritical care programs across the U.S. Advanced neurocritical care monitoring is
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Creating an Exercise Program How to create an exercise program Exercise is vital for your health. It can improve your overall sense of well-being. Even low-to-moderate intensity activities for 30 minutes a day can help. These can include: Walking Climbing stairs Gardening Yard
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Families first at Phoenix Children’s
… the healthcare system and advocating for someone with complex medical needs. And for many families like her own, … Clinic became a designated Muscular Dystrophy Clinic site. The clinic’s medical director, Saunder M. Bernes, MD , …