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Heart Transplant Gives Local Father a New Lease on Life

Jason Pablo moved easily around a tennis court on a recent bright and sunny afternoon, alternately hitting the ball to his daughter, 10, and son, 7, standing ready with their racquets on the other side of the net. Pablo, 38, loves spending time with his children—playing tennis and basketball and biking with them. But only three years ago, he could not have done these things. He suffered from a form of cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart: the lower left chamber of the organ had become dilated, or enlarged, impairing its ability to pump blood. Today, however, he is swinging a racket and chasing down tennis balls again, as well as doing all the activities he enjoyed before his diagnosis, thanks to a heart transplant at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. "Basically, the transplant has allowed me to think beyond the next day, the next week, and even the next month, about being an active participant in my children's future," he said. "That, for me, is the greatest thing." Read Pablo’s full story: http://stanfordhealthcare.org/newsroo... Visit: http://stanfordhealthcare.org