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3-D Models Help Delicate Peds Surgery
Cloacal repair is a delicate surgical procedure that many pediatric surgeons will never encounter in their lifetime. But UC Davis pediatric surgeon Payam Saadai specializes in this type of surgery. He is committed to helping children born with a cloaca to have the best possible future.
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Life-changing Craniofacial Care Helps a Girl Eat and Breathe
UC Davis Cleft and Craniofacial team helps improve Lily Jones’ life.
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Grace’s story
This “miracle” girl with a heart of gold was born with a heart defect. Grace Garcia’s parents got the news before she was born.
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UC Davis Children’s Hospital’s first fetal surgery patient turns three
The options for Matthew Saeturn-Angeles’ hydrops were limited and risky
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‘Miracle babies’: Formerly conjoined twins Abigail and Micaela home for Christmas
Twins discharged from the hospital just days before their first birthday.
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Innovative robotic heart surgery offers patients superior care
UC Davis Medical Center is one of only six centers in U.S. to be designated as a training center for the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Foundation’s Cardiac Surgical Robotics Program. Less-invasive robotic procedures can allow for faster recovery.
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A teen's life after 12 heart surgeries
Casey Dyke has been told he is a mended little miracle. When his mother Gina Dyke was pregnant, a routine ultrasound and prenatal testing at UC Davis Health revealed that her unborn son had a missing tricuspid valve (a congenital heart defect known as tricuspid atresia). He would need a series of surgeries to repair the defect after birth.
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Rare craniopagus twins separated in a 24-hour surgery
Nine-month-old conjoined twins Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy are recovering at UC Davis Children’s Hospital after surgeons successfully separated them in a marathon surgery on Oct. 24 and 25.
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Advances in heart failure take center stage at cardiovascular summit
Cardiovascular experts from UC Davis Health presented new research and clinical findings at the 2022 Heart Failure Summit this past fall.
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Zulresso brings mother back from postpartum depression
Patient gets life-enhancing IV treatment at UC Davis Medical Center.
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Congenital heart patient and nurse forge a 15-year friendship
Nurse Barb Goebel helps Amanda Kwok on her health care journey into adulthood. Born with only three functioning heart chambers instead of four, Amanda Kwok had health challenges from her very first day of life.
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An ankle becomes a knee for a sports-loving sarcoma patient
Childhood is typically filled with adventure and joy. Kids run and play with reckless abandon at recess and fill their minds with new concepts in the classroom. For 9-year-old Jorge Portugal-Herrera, a Green Bay Packers fanatic and aspiring football player, all that stopped when he was diagnosed with cancer.