October Saw a Record Number of Organ Transplants at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford

BUSINESS WIRE

17 life-saving organ donations transformed the lives of 16 children “It’s our highest-volume month ever for solid organ transplants.”

A few of the faces of the organ transplant recipients this October at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Photo: Business Wire)

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sixteen children at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford received life-saving organ transplants in October, setting a record for the most transplant surgeries performed at the hospital in a single month.

One of those patients was Toni and Jason Zumbach’s daughter, 7-month-old Charli, who was born with biliary atresia, a chronic, progressive liver condition in infants that blocks the bile ducts, quickly scarring the liver cells and eventually leading to liver failure. The Zumbachs, who are from Angels Camp, California, came to Palo Alto in September when Stanford Children’s Health transplant specialists who run a liver transplant clinic at the Madera Children’s Hospital told Charli’s mother, Toni, “We need to get her to Packard Children’s now.”

“We were so happy that we had the connection to this Stanford Children’s team from Madera. This is where we wanted to be for her transplant,” said Toni Zumbach.

Zumbach said their pediatric transplant surgeon, Amy Gallo, MD, reassured them that everything would be fine when the time came for Charli’s transplantation. Continue reading

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