AURORA, Colo. (KRDO) – A rare double organ transplant, the first of its kind at Children’s Hospital Colorado, is giving a brave 11-year-old girl a second chance at life.
Children’s Hospital Colorado successfully performed the Rocky Mountain region’s first pediatric heart and liver dual organ transplant this year for Gracie Greenlaw.
Gracie was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, meaning her heart had only one chamber pumping blood into her body. She required three surgeries before age 3 to keep her heart functioning. She was also living with plastic bronchitis, leading to liver failure, the hospital said…