When Shina Biblow and her husband Tyson found out they were expecting their second child, they never imagined the journey ahead. Four months into her pregnancy, Shina faced a life-threatening infection that required open heart surgery—a procedure that carried a 40% risk of losing her baby.
Christine’s journey through heart failure, motherhood, and embracing life after transplant thanks to the team at St. Paul’s Hospital.
When Dr. Marla Kiess founded the Pacific Adult Congenital Heart (PACH) clinic in 1988, a minority of children born with congenital heart defects survived to adulthood. But thanks to medical advances, better surgical techniques, and interventional cardiology, the share of patients who go on to live full adult lives now exceeds 90 per cent.