Eugenia and Justino Hurtado's four children were all born with a serious illness that could only be cured with a liver transplant, but the family was terrified of the risks. Seattle Childrens transplant experts helped the Hurtados overcome their fears and changed their lives for the better.
Transplanting organs in children is a relatively new field that is always changing. At Seattle Childrens, your child will have access to the most current, state-of-the-art liver transplant therapies and clinical trials.
The liver is an organ that can regenerate - as little as 25% of a liver can grow into a whole liver again. This makes it possible for our surgeons to remove part of a healthy liver from a living person and transplant it into someone whose liver is failing so that both people can go on to have healthy liver function.
Portal hypertension is high blood pressure in the portal vein, which brings blood from your childs intestine to their liver. It happens when something blocks the flow of blood to or through the liver. Our Portal Hypertension Clinic brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts to meet your childs unique health needs.
Your childs liver transplant surgeon will be part of a team with some of the best outcomes in the nation, including a 100% one-year survival rate. Waiting for a donor organ can be stressful. The international leaders on Seattle Childrens transplant team will use innovative treatments to improve your childs quality of life while they are on the waitlist.
The prospect of an organ transplant can be frightening and feel overwhelming. We will help your entire family understand the transplant process, develop new skills to cope with your childs illness and hospital stay.
About the Event:Please join us at the 2022 Guild Association Annual Meeting and Luncheon Celebration as we celebrate the incredible resilience, dedication and impact of our guilds. Enjoy an inspiring program featuring Seattle Childrens comprehensive approach to cancer care and research.
We fight relentlessly to make sure theres no such thing as out of options and to make sure kids who didn't have a chance can have the childhoods they deserve. At Seattle Childrens, were united by a compelling mission: We provide hope, care and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.
Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research and serve as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho the largest region of any childrens hospital in the country.
U.S. News & World Report has recognized Seattle Childrens as a top childrens hospital every year since it began ranking medical facilities more than 25 years ago. This means your child will be cared for by the very best.
These three simple words capture what we are here to do. Thats because at Seattle Childrens, compassionate care, breakthrough research and generous donors come together every day for children who need us.
Through the collaboration of physicians in nearly 60 pediatric subspecialties, we provide inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, surgical, rehabilitative, behavioral, emergency and outreach services regardless of a familys ability to pay.
At the forefront of pediatric medical research, the research division at Seattle Childrens is working to cure childhood disease and improve outcomes for children all over the world. The division consists of Seattle Childrens Research Institute and Seattle Childrens Therapeutics, and is internationally recognized for its work in cancer therapies, genetics, neuroscience, immunology, infectious disease and bioethics.
Seattle Childrens was initially founded and run by a group of philanthropic women more than 100 years ago. Their generous spirit can be seen today in the support of thousands of donors and guild members, and its their support that ultimately makes it possible for our care and research teams to come together raising funds to ultimately create better futures for our patients.
For more than 113 years, Seattle Childrens has committed to providing hope, care and cures for children throughout our region. Seattle Childrens serves the largest area of any pediatric hospital in the country from Utqiagvik, Alaska to Bozeman, Montana and is dedicated to helping every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Growth at Seattle Childrens will offer greater access to care and more hope for every child who needs us now and for generations to come.