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Family Meets Dallas Man Who Received Son's Heart
A Dallas man gets a second chance at life after receiving a new heart. Now, he gets the opportunity to meet the family of his organ donor.
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Family Meets Dallas Man Who Received Son's Heart
A Dallas man gets a second chance at life after receiving a new heart. Now, he gets the opportunity to meet the family of his organ donor.
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After Enduring 3 Heart Attacks in 1 Year, Woman Receives Heart Transplant
At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...
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Baby Defies Odds, Becomes 300th Heart Transplant at Dallas Children's
Baby Miles is now happy and healthy after receiving a heart transplant — the 300th at Children’s Health in Dallas.
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Baby Defies Odds, Becomes 300th Heart Transplant at Dallas Children's
Baby Miles is now happy and healthy after receiving a heart transplant — the 300th at Children’s Health in Dallas, NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen reports.
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8-Year Old Fort Worth Girl Shares Heart Transplant Journey
An 8-year old Fort Worth girl is sharing her heart transplant journey to raise awareness of how heart failure can happen to anyone at any age. Just two years ago, Riley Robinson got sick with what her parents thought was a simple cold. Her three sisters were also sick with a cold so it didn’t seem out of the...
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8-Year Old Fort Worth Girl Shares Heart Transplant Journey
An 8-year old Fort Worth girl is sharing her heart transplant journey to raise awareness of how heart failure can happen to anyone at any age.
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New Technology Helps North Texas Teen Waiting for Heart Transplant
Heart failure in children is rare, but scary. While Lafayette McAlphin Jr. waits for a heart transplant, newer technology is making the waits a little more manageable.
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One Teenager's Battle With Loeffler's Syndrome
Loeffler’s syndrome is a serious, but rare respiratory infection that can take doctors months to diagnose. In the most severe cases, that critical time can lead to organ damage.
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Couple Marry in Hospital After Abrupt Diagnosis
Matt Shilling was perfectly fine less than two months ago. Then in September, he was having trouble breathing, so he went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. Shilling was given an artificial heart to keep his blood pumping, and after a series of tests, doctors said he may need a heart transplant. However, he first...
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DISD Board Member Shares Story of Daughter's Life-Saving Heart Transplant Journey
Miguel Solis spoke at Children’s Health’s ‘What’s Up, Doc’ breakfast Thursday morning, sharing his baby daughter’s emotional heart transplant journey.
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McKinney Man Holds His Old Heart After Transplant
Leslie Lee Walden was back at Baylor University Medical Center Wednesday after a transplant to see and hold the heart that nearly failed him.
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St. Luke's Directed to Fix Issues or Lose Medicare Subsidies
An embattled Houston hospital that in the past year faced leadership changes, a loss of some government funding and questions about heart transplant patient deaths has been accused of violating patient safety and quality care requirements.
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Lake Highlands Rallies Behind Coach as Son Fights for His Life
Though the Lake Highlands Wildcats baseball team took to the diamond Friday night in front of crowded stands, they weren’t the only team their fans were cheering for.
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Texas Mother Survives Massive Heart Attack Related to Pregnancy
A young Texas mother is opening up how her pregnancy may have caused the heart attack that almost killed her. Doctors say what happened is rare, but just as miraculous as her survival, is the device that is keeping her alive.
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Heart Transplant Recipient Meets Donor's Family
A heart transplant recipient from Tarrant County and the donor’s family, from New Mexico, met for the first time Saturday.
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Heart Transplant Patient Visited by Drake Can Now Call Him on His Cellphone
The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.
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Houston Hospital's Heart Transplant Program Losing Medicare
A Houston hospital that in early June suspended its heart transplant program for two weeks amid scrutiny over patient deaths loses Medicare funding next month.
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Houston Heart Transplant Hospital Could Lose Medicaid Funds
A Houston hospital that suspended its heart transplant program for two weeks amid scrutiny following the deaths of two patients could lose federal Medicaid funding.
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Dallas ISD Trustee's Infant Daughter Recovers From Successful Heart Transplant
The 3-month-old baby girl is recovering after having a life-saving procedure fewer than a dozen Texas infants undergo each year.