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Heart Transplant/Heart Failure Program A child with heart failure has a diseased heart that can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s demands. Symptoms may include fatigue, excessive sweating or trouble breathing. Pediatric heart failure is a condition …
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Hemophilia & Thrombosis Program We partner with community providers in caring for patients of any age suffering from bleeding and clotting disorders, while also providing education, emotional support and family-centered care. We actively participate in …
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Our Hepatology Program is the only one of its kind in a freestanding children's hospital in Arizona, treating patients with acute or chronic liver conditions from infancy to adulthood, with a full range of services, some that aren't offered anywhere else in the state. When a
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Histiocytosis Program Histiocytosis, often referred to as the “orphan disease,” is a rare blood disease that affects only about 1 in 200,000 children born each year in the US. We have Arizona’s only histiocytosis team exclusively focused on the disease. …
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system, which helps the body fight infections. As a result, those infected with HIV become more vulnerable to various infections and diseases. It is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of a person with HIV
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Chemotherapy for Children What is chemotherapy for a child? Chemotherapy (chemo) is the use of medicines to treat cancer or kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy has been used for many years. It’s one of the most common treatments for many types of cancer. The groups of cancer therapy
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Hospital Medicine When you have a child in the hospital, you want a trusted team of caring physicians at their side. With the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Medicine Program, you have that and more. These medical doctors, called hospitalists, have advanced …
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Germ Cell Tumors (GCTs) in Children What are germ cell tumors in children? A type of cell that forms as a fetus (also called unborn baby or embryo) develops is called a germ cell. Germ cells are the cells that make the eggs (ova) in females and the sperm in males. Germ cell
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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. These growths are associated with a severe form of childhood epilepsy
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Hepatoblastoma in Children What is hepatoblastoma in children? Hepatoblastoma is a very rare cancer that starts in the liver. It usually affects children less than 3 years of age. About half of all children with it are diagnosed before age 1. It usually doesn’t spread