2-year-old girl, whose family was once helped through Denver7 Gives, has successful heart transplant

Crystal has had ventricular septal defect, a hole in her heart, since birth. The diagnosis brought her family to Children's Colorado to await a lifesaving heart transplant. “It was so critical that we got a heart as soon as we could for her that was compatible for her body," said Melanie Everitt, MD, Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant (and professor of pediatrics, Section of Cardiology). A year later, Crystal received her heart and is now back home.