Meet Children’s Heart Center Patients
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Moriah Nelson When Moriah was born with a serious heart defect, doctors at another medical center said nothing could be done. But Moriah's parents brought her to Packard Children's, where the defect was fully repaired and doctors and nurses worked closely with her family to provide comprehensive family-centered care. |
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Noelle Takagi Noelle’s pulmonary valve was replaced without surgery, the youngest patient ever to undergo this catheter-based treatment. |
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Miles Coulson Miles spent 55 days on the Berlin Heart, a mechanical pump, before successfully receiving a heart transplant. |
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Beech Basler Beech was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta before birth. Surgery shortly after his birth corrected the problem. |
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Isabella Bailey Isabella underwent two operations to correct a hole in her heart and a missing pulmonary artery and valve. |




