Last fall, doctors at the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital performed a total artificial heart implantation on one of the youngest and smallest patients in the world. David Peng, M.D., pediatric cardiologist and the director of pediatric heart failure and mechanical circulatory support at Mott, shares insights from the case, including the condition of acute myocarditis and the life-saving procedure he described as a “hail Mary.”
