Find out about living with ITP and the treatment options you can discuss with your child's health-care team.
Teens living with hemophilia can find out what happens during a bleed. Learn about the symptoms of a bleed.
Find information about plasma protein products made from donated blood. Learn about the different products and their uses.
Here is an introduction to scoliosis surgery. Links are provided to pages that give information about what will happen before, during, and after surgery.
Learn what happens during your child's allogeneic stem cell transplant.
Learn what happens at follow-up clinic visits after brain tumour treatment for your child has ended.
Informed decision making is an important component of choosing whether to treat scoliosis. Learn about what can happen if scoliosis is not treated.
Find out why arthritis can occur in young people. This page describes how joint inflammation happens, and how juvenile idiopathic arthritis can hurt your joints. It also outlines some of the symptoms of arthritis in young people.
Following a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) your child may feel pain while they urinate. Learn how to reduce discomfort from VCUG catheterization.
Find out what happens when a patient enters the operating room to when they are moved into their room. A guide for what to expect during scoliosis surgery.
A heart transplant operation takes four to 10 hours. Learn what happens during the transplant and the major problems that may occur.
Find out what happens during regular arthritis check-ups, how frequent they should be, and why it is important for you to attend all check-up appointments.
Learn about how long the average person should sleep, what happens when you sleep and why sleep is important.
Learn what happens during your child's autologous blood and marrow transplant (BMT) procedure.
A calorimetry test measures a child's resting metabolic rate. Learn about what happens during a calorimetry test as well as how to prepare your child.
This page describes how joint inflammation happens and how juvenile idiopathic arthritis can hurt your joints. It also outlines some of the symptoms of arthritis in young people.
Learn about feeding studies, which find out what your child can drink and eat safely. The feeding study is an X-ray video of what happens from when food enters your child's mouth until after your child swallows.
Hereditary spherocytosis is a genetic condition. In most cases it is inherited from a parent. Learn how HS is inherited and what happens in a de novo mutation.
Find out what happens during an electroencephalogram before epilepsy surgery.
Learn about congenital muscular torticollis, why it happens and what you can do to help your child.
An in-depth look at what is involved in a biopsy as part of the medical diagnosis of brain cancer.
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