Patient stories

When their foster daughter faced insurmountable odds, a Delaware couple turned to CHOP for help with complications from spinal muscular atrophy.

Caleb depends on electricity to run his ventilator, suction machine and feeding tube. CHOP’s Medical Legal Partnership helped his family keep the utilities on so now Caleb can focus on other things — like preparing for kindergarten.

Surgery in a child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has eliminated life-threatening respiratory infections by straightening the spine and separating the ribs.

Céline’s symptoms dramatically improved after she received a new gene therapy treatment for Type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) at CHOP.