Pediatric Liver Transplant for Teen Hockey Player
Treatment TermsChildren's healthLiver transplant
CategoriesAdvanced treatments
Sub-Title
Rare Liver Condition Discovered After Fall During Hockey Game
Author
Burgetta Wheeler
Overview
Colby Heath was a growing teenage boy, so his penchant for sleep didn't concern his mother. Nor did his occasional nosebleeds. Yet, as Colby's family now knows, those were clues that something was horribly wrong.
Hero Imageskating_on_thin_ice_3.jpg
Preview Image
Content Blocks
CTA HeaderLiver Transplants at Duke
CTA LinkLearn more
Section Features
Call To Action
Header
Playing Hockey was Risk Factor for Congenital Liver Abnormality
Content“He went from being a seemingly healthy kid who plays hockey to a kid who needs aliver transplant in a very short span of time, ” said Megan Butler, MD, a hepatologist who treated Colby atDuke Children ’s Hospital.In fact, it was playing hockey that likely saved Colby ’s life. During a game early in 2015, a body check sent Colby to the ice, where he alarmingly remained. He couldn ' t feel his legs, he said. Taken to an emergency department, he eventually regained sensation and walked out of the hospital that night.At his hockey evaluations that fall, however, he reported that he was still having occasional numbness in his legs. His parents, Naomi and Brian Askew of Apex, North Carolina, both emergency department nurses, immediately had him evaluated at a Wake County hospital.Tests showed that Colby...
Source: dukehealth.org: Health Tips - Category: Primary Care Authors: klh85 at duke.edu Source Type: news
More News: Alopecia | Blogging | Brain | Cardiology | Children | Emergency Medicine | Epistaxis (Nosebleeds) | Heart | Heart Transplant | Hospitals | Kidney Transplant | Kidney Transplantation | Liver | Liver Transplant | Medical Ethics | Neurology | Nurses | Nursing | Organ Donation | Pediatrics | Primary Care | Sleep Disorders | Sleep Medicine | Sports Medicine | Transplant Surgery | Transplants | Urology & Nephrology