Lyme disease
For many, diagnosis and treatment
remain daunting foes
The number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States
has more than doubled over the last decade as a result of increased
public knowledge and more accurate diagnostic capabilities. And
as the weather heats up and families head to the woods of Connecticut
or the beaches of Cape Cod for summer vacations, the incidence of
the disease is likely to reach new heights this summer.
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Liver transplantation
Mother-to-infant
surgery highlights Liver Program
When 6-month-old Adara Lucia Henriquez and her family arrived at
Children’s Hospital Boston from Panama, she was too small and too
fragile to have the liver transplant she desperately needed. Under
the direction of Maureen Jonas, MD, medical director
of Children’s Liver Transplant Program, nurses and physicians worked
diligently for three months to improve Adara’s condition enough
so she could endure the procedure. Adara needed the liver transplant
because she suffered from biliary atresia, and toxins were building
up and damaging her liver. She subsequently developed cirrhosis
in her liver. Although she had surgery shortly after birth in Panama,
the operations did not fix her problems, and her postoperative course
was complicated by infections and malnutrition.
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