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Patient Care

Best friends and kidney twins: young boys receive organs from same donor

May 6, 2021
Pediatric patients have growing need for organ donation
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Patient Care

Rescued, malnourished infant receives lifesaving care and adoptive home

April 14, 2021
Pediatricians care for child abuse victims; significant increase of abuse rate during pandemic
Violeta Andrade and her boyfriend, Marco Benitez, hold their newborn twins in the neonatal intensive care unit of the LLU Medical Center.

Patient Care

Woman faced with unexpected double diagnosis of pregnancy and blood cancer now a mother to healthy twins

April 6, 2021
LLU oncology and OB-GYN specialists safely guided Violeta Andrade through leukemia and a high-risk pregnancy
The Mcintyre couple walk around LLU Medical Center the day after Howard donated his kidney to Diana. They are grateful for each other and to the transplant surgeons who performed their procedure that granted them a better quality of life.

Patient Care

LLUH physicians turn a heart-bound couple’s dream for a kidney transplant into reality

April 1, 2021
In honor of National Donate Life Month, learn the story of a transplant recipient and her living donor husband
From left: Shilene Blain-Hearns and Mojtaba Akhtari, MD

Patient Care

Patient heavily treated for rare disease finds resolve at LLU Cancer Center

April 20, 2021
Shilene Blain-Hearns reached remission at the Cancer Center, bringing her long and winding care journey to completion
From left: Everett Roberts, Mrs. Roberts, and their granddaughter

Patient Care

Patients needing heart valve repair can benefit from robotic surgery at LLU

March 23, 2021
Everett Roberts is able to embrace an active lifestyle once again, thanks to the procedure
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Health & Wellness

Three poisonous household items that parents may be forgetting

March 22, 2021
March 21-27 is Poison Prevention Week
From left, cardiologists Harit Desai, MD, and Niraj Parekh, MD, hold surgical equipment used to repair patients’ heart valves during TMVr — a procedure that saved Elenita Tan’s life in December 2020.

Patient Care

TMVr procedure — the last, life-saving chance for a patient results in success

March 15, 2021
Elenita Tan overcame multi-organ failure after a transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) procedure at LLUMC — Murrieta
Elijah sitting with his siblings by Christmas tree

Patient Care

A teenager’s near deadly cardiac event becomes series of miracles

February 26, 2021
Elijah Collins, 16, went into cardiac arrest for unknown reasons
Margarita Martinez and her care team pose for a picture on the day of Martinez's stem cell transplantation

Patient Care

First adult haploidentical stem cell transplant at LLUH saves adult patient’s life

February 23, 2021
Physicians successfully transferred blood stem cells from a son to his mother fighting acute blood cancer
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