I write books (more than twenty now), mostly about food and cooking, half with chefs, some non-food non-fiction books (wooden boats, the fascinating world
of pediatric heart surgery), and a lot of opinions here on the fundamental importance of food and cooking to our families, our communities, our world.
November 22, 2000 University of Chicago Hospitals performs its
first pediatric heart transplant On November 20, just in time for Thanksgiving, Diamond Alexander, 11, received a heart transplant.
Although this was the first
pediatric heart transplant performed at the Hospitals, the University of Chicago has the second largest heart transplant program in Illinois and has been performing heart transplants for adults since 1984.
This photo, from a 2013 Biomaterials paper, shows green fluorescent nanoparticles carrying small interfering RNA. The RNA precisely shuts down one particular gene encoding a NOX enzyme. Eventually, similar nanoparticles may shield the heart from damage
during pediatric heart surgery.
As an international referral center for children with complex congenital heart disease, the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Congenital Heart Center is one of the largest and
best pediatric heart programs in the United States.
Thus, they may be a way to harvest the regenerative capacity of
pediatric heart tissue without delivering the cells themselves.
Parenting stress and parental post-traumatic stress disorder in families
after pediatric heart transplantation.
Sinclair spent the next six months teaching himself as much as he could about the medical complexities of
pediatric heart surgery.