Makenna’s Heart
In its first-ever stand-alone “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” issue, U.S.News & World Report has made Texas Children’s Heart Center the focus of an extensive editorial feature.

The article, titled “Fixing Makenna’s Heart,” tells the story of Makenna, a four-year old born with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, and the Texas Children’s team, led by Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., who rebuilt her heart and “gave her the gift of life.”

The compelling, six-page photo essay follows Makenna and her parents through her third—and, hopefully, last—surgery just a few weeks ago.

About Texas Children’s Heart Center
More children with pediatric and congenital cardiac diseases are treated at Texas Children's Heart Center than almost any hospital in the United States – and our success rates are among the best. It’s a track record grounded in a simple formula: premier physicians, an ultramodern facility and groundbreaking research.

Our acclaimed heart center, led by Dr. Jeffrey A. Towbin and Dr. Charles D. Fraser, Jr. includes 34 pediatric cardiologists and four pediatric cardiovascular surgeons. Our six pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiologists put us in an elite group of pediatric heart programs worldwide. And five of the world's 65 board-certified pediatric perfusionists call Texas Children’s Heart Center home.

With surgical outcomes better than 98 percent, each year we perform:
		15,000 patient consultations
		1,000 cardiac catheterizations
		750 cardiac surgical procedures
		500 open-heart surgeries
		15 to 25 heart transplants

The Heart Center sees more than 15,000 patients annually, with outcomes among the best in the country. It also houses the largest pediatric lung and pediatric heart transplant programs in the country. Additionally, our surgeons perform complex double organ transplants, such as heart-lung, heart-kidney and lung-liver.

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