At 18 months old, Jackie needed hip surgery. CHOP’s new hospital will give families like hers easier access to CHOP’s world-class orthopedic experts.

Before she was born, Sophia underwent successful surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to remove a tumor called a sacrococcygeal teratoma from her tailbone. See how she's doing now.

When 17-year-old Maddie collapsed on the school athletic field, a quick-thinking staff member saved her life with an AED. Now she’s determined to save others.

After being diagnosed and treated for a genetic disorder, Elliott’s troubling GI symptoms continued – leading CHOP doctors to discover he also had biliary atresia.

The fetal medicine team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia made a treatment plan for his CCAM/CPAM, and Owen is now home and happy after surgery.

Chris and Jolin traveled from their home in Pensacola, Florida to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to give their son, Max, access to world-class CDH care.

CDH can be a devastating diagnosis for an expecting parent to receive. But for a select group of babies with the most severe form of CDH, treatment before birth may help.

A genetic connective tissue disorder leads to multiple aortic aneurysms and life-threatening dissection in an 11-year-old.

Supported by CHOP over the years, Maia, 18, is hoping to join the U.S. Olympic fencing team to compete in the Summer Olympics.

When Gavin was born, doctors didn’t expect him to survive, but thanks to a large team of specialists and a coordinated spine surgery, he’s defying the odds.

One family shares their experience for parents who learn their child has a severe diagnosis before birth

The team at the Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders gave Zakary what he’d never before had: a fully functioning airway.

Spontaneous total hearing loss in one ear turned out to be only a bump in the road — not an end of dreams — for Abby, who had a cochlear implant at CHOP at 17.

Luke’s repeated infections worried his parents and puzzled his doctors. Whole-exome sequencing helped CHOP researchers discover a new genetic disease causing his symptoms and determine the best course of treatment.

Kathryn has overcome more in her 17 years than most do in a lifetime. Learn how CHOP helped her and her family face each new challenge.

Thanks to care from CHOP’s Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease (NeoCLD) Program and a new, catheter-based surgery to close her congenital heart defect, Maddie is home and makes developmental gains every day.

After just a year of care from CHOP’s Pediatric Stroke Program, 16-year-old Morgan has regained her ability to speak and is back to doing the sports she loves.

With pseudotumor cerebri syndrome, the symptoms are real even though the tumor is not. Lily relied on her CHOP doctors and her own perseverance to combat the condition.

When CHOP discovered the genetic mutation that caused two boys’ early deaths, their family donated $2 million to CHOP to propel mitochondrial disease research even further.

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