Items Tagged ‘3782’
March 25, 2013
Rare heart-liver transplant gives South Carolina woman a second chance at life
By MakalaArce 
Beki Rose and her husband, Tom, had met with half a dozen doctors, and they all said the same thing. “They told me to go home and get my things in order,” says Beki, a 51-year-old mother of three with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. The congenital condition had so damaged Beki’s heart and liver that […]
Tags: 3782, 3793, 5324, 5335, arrhythmogenic, Beki Rose, Dr. Russell Wiesner, Heart transplant, heart-liver, Liver Transplant, right ventricular dysplasia
December 8, 2012
A heart transplant put him back in the race
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist 
Every day, with every step: Transplant patient Dan Olson honors his heart donor with his life.
Tags: 3782, 5252, 5324, 5335, 5417, cardiomyopathy, Dan Olson, Heart transplant, Mayo Clinic
December 1, 2012
New technology makes heart transplant possible
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist
By the time JoAnn Forster realized she’d had a heart attack, the damage was done. Then medical technology helped her bridge the gap to a new heart.
Tags: 3782, 4661, 5324, 5417, Heart transplant, JoAnn Forster, Mayo Clinic, ventricular assist device
November 28, 2012
Coming full circle: Sharing a message of hope
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist
Ardell Lien sailed around the world powered by a heart and kidney transplanted at Mayo Clinic.
Tags: 3782, 3786, 5324, 5417, Ardell Lien, Dr. Brooks Edwards, Heart transplant, kidney transplant, Mayo Clinic
November 24, 2012
Heart transplant puts Mia Welch back in the dance
By Margaret Shepard, Communications Specialist
A diagnosis of congestive heart failure pulled Mia Welch off stage. After a heart transplant at Mayo Clinic, she’s looking forward to dancing again.
Tags: 3782, 5324, congestive heart failure, Heart transplant, Mayo Clinic, Mia Welch
June 21, 2012
Mayo Clinic’s 185th Heart Transplant Patient and her “Chocolat”
By MakalaArce
I wish I knew more ways to say, “Thank you”. I was given not just a second chance at life, but also a life with possibilities never imagined. Being born with congenital heart defects, my first open-heart surgery was performed when I was five-days-old. Six more heart surgeries followed before being tremendously fortunate to have […]
Tags: 1474, 185, 3782, 5252, 5324, 5335, chocolat, chocolate, Heart, Heidi Ash, Transplant
November 10, 2011
Rare treatment for rare disease: Triple transplant
On June 14, 2011, after a 107-day wait in the hospital at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Kirk Watson, 44, received the news he’d been waiting for — a heart, liver and kidney were available for him. He would be the fourth person to receive a triple transplant at Mayo Clinic and only the 11th […]
Tags: 2272, 3782, 3786, 3793, 5252, 5324, 5334, hereditary amyloidosis, Kirk Watson, Triple Transplant
June 26, 2009
By Lynn Closway 
‘Date Night’ Takes on New Meaning for Heart Patient at Mayo Clinic in Arizona It would be hard to ignore the elephant in the room. This “elephant” happens to be the 400-pound artificial heart machine that is keeping alive a very special patient at Mayo Clinic in Arizona — a 41-year-old husband and father of […]
Tags: 3782, 5252, 5254, 5333, Arizona, Cardiology, Patient Stories
May 9, 2009
By Traci Klein
As an 8-year-old girl from Michigan was headed into surgery for a heart transplant, she asked Mike Ackerman — a pediatric cardiology fellow at Mayo who was part of her care team — if she was going to live. Dr. Ackerman said, “Of course you’re going to live, and I’m going to dance with you […]
Tags: 3782, 5251, 5252, 5306, 5335, Cardiology, Heart & Heart Surgery, Heart transplant, Martha Grogan, Michael Ackerman, Prom, Sefani Pentiuk