Patient stories

A young athlete’s love of sports is derailed by valve disease, until an innovative procedure gets him back in his game.

Francis was born with HLHS, a severe heart defect. After the first two of a staged series of three heart reconstruction procedures, he is doing well.

Harold has been successfully treated for high blood pressure since he was 13. Today, he’s a social young man who loves bowling and running.

A series of surgical procedures at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia corrected Brynn’s rare combination of heart defects.