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Andrew Widman was merely hours old when doctors discovered he had a rare heart defect called transposition of the great arteries.

When Dale Cooksey's mitral valve wasn't sealing normally, doctors at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute performed the MitraClip procedure to get the 98-year-old back to his active lifestyle quickly.

After having a SCAD heart attack, Dana Garrison found a cardiologist at Saint Luke's, who specializes in the condition, and joined a study to help further the understanding of it.

Melody Unger loves to fill the world with sound. If the spirited 8-year-old isn’t singing, she’s humming, playing the drums, asking questions, or playing make-believe. But for the first two years of her life, Melody lived in silence.

On the day after Andrew Widman returned home from Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City with his new heart, his wife, Vicki, drove him to the DMV. There he ordered a personalized license plate that read simply “745.” It’s a number that’s particularly close to his heart.

Maddox was born with hereditary hearing loss. He received a cochlear implant. Watch how it changed his life.

Veteran news reporter Dan Verbeck missed the biggest story of his life—his own death.

Saint Luke’s Hospital has been certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center by The Joint Commission, becoming only the third hospital in the country to do so.

Saint Luke’s Hospital has been certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center by The Joint Commission, becoming only the third hospital in the country to do so.

Trial device helps Seabrun “Candy” Hunter’s worn heart valve pump at a steady beat.