Learn about organ and tissue donation by children with a heart condition.
Your health-care team may offer red blood cell transfusions or stem cell transplants to treat your sickle cell disease. Learn about both treatments, including their benefits and risks.
Your child's health-care team may offer red blood cell transfusions to treat your child's sickle cell disease. Learn about the treatment, including its benefits and risks.
Read about the reasons you might need a kidney transplant and how a kidney transplant can affect your future.
Learn about common arterial trunk, a defect in which a single great artery comes out of the ventricles instead of the usual pulmonary artery and aorta.
Learn about donor hearts and what will happen to the donor heart before it is transplanted.
Learn about what your child should expect when preparing for scoliosis surgery, including a pre-surgery teaching session, X-rays, clinical photos, blood work and other imaging tests.
Your child needs to take the medicine called lanreotide. This information sheet explains what lanreotide does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Being sick can impact your child's blood sugar levels. Find tips on how to manage diabetes on sick days.
Cerebral endovascular embolization is a procedure that blocks or closes certain blood vessels in the brain. Learn about what to expect before, during and after your child’s procedure.
Learn how chemotherapy for acute childhood leukemias is administered and possible side effects children receiving chemotherapy may experience.
Learn why your child is at risk of developing secondary cancers after they are treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
A cerebral angiogram uses X-ray imaging and contrast dye to create a map of the blood vessels in the brain. Learn more about how it is performed.
Your child will receive a medicine called filgrastim. This information sheet explains what filgrastim does, how it is given, what side effects or problems you or your child may have when using this medicine specifically for stem cell collection and who to
Learn what happens during chemotherapy phases for acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
A heart stent is a small metal tube that is placed inside a narrowed blood vessel or conduit to keep it open. Read about heart stent surgery and recovery.
Learn about what blood does for the body, the different components of blood and what different blood types mean.
Catheter ablation is a treatment for children with certain types of tachycardia (rapid heart rate). Treatment involves destroying an abnormal circuit.
