Surgery: Pediatric

St. Louis Children's Hospital was founded in 1879 and houses both pediatric medical and surgical patients. Pediatric surgery is one of the more recently developed surgical specialties. The field derived from the recognition that children, and particularly infants, have surgical problems distinct from those seen in adults primarily because of differences in etiology (e.g. congenital anomalies) or age.

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All smiles University's 1,000th liver transplant recipient is all smiles one year later Feb. 6, 2007 -- Photo by Robert Boston Kaidence Oliver, 22 months, entertained a number of members of the St. Louis media Jan. 17 during a celebration honoring her as the University's 1,000th liver transplant recipient. She received her new liver one year ago at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Imagine that Teenager first to play video game by brain only Oct. 9, 2006 -- Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL Photo Researchers have enabled a 14-year-old to play a two-dimensional video game using signals from his brain instead of his hands. Download Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements. More...

A chance for a better life Gentler stem cell transplant gives eight-year-old new hope June 13, 2005 -- A successful stem cell transplant involves the donor cells becoming permanently established in the patient's bone marrow, producing healthy blood cells. The process is quite a medical marvel, but the surgery can yield severe side effects. That's why researchers at the School of Medicine created a kinder, gentler process that is providing more positive outcomes for seriously ill patients, including the eight-year-old boy featured in the following story from Ivanhoe.

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