Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 20-year-old Milwaukee woman becomes first in U.S. to return home with a mobile Berlin Heart

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 20-year-old Milwaukee woman becomes first in U.S. to return home with a mobile Berlin Heart

Sep 08, 2018
Children's Wisconsin Media Relations

After more than a year since being admitted to Children's Wisconsin, a Wisconsin woman, Christina, went home in September. She was the first patient in the United States to go home with a mobile Berlin Heart, a device that operates outside her body to assist blood flow to the heart.

Story appeared in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read the full article here

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The Herma Heart Institute at Children’s Wisconsin is one of the nation’s top pediatric heart programs and the largest in the state. We care for patients with congenital heart disease from before birth through adulthood.