A young boy is diagnosed with ARCAPA, a congenital heart defect so rare that the CHLA cardiologist who diagnosed the condition had never encountered it before in more than two decades of pediatric
A Children’s Hospital Los Angeles team has performed the first-in-human implant of a cardiac stent for babies that can be expanded to adult size as a child grows.
Ten years after Desiree’s third open-heart surgery for congenital heart defects at CHLA’s Heart Institute, her family knew exactly where they needed to be when it was time for her fourth and fifth.
Born with the same heart defect, father-and-son Jeff and Bryce had their lives saved decades apart by the same surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.