Glenn Forshee, 63, had been in good health for most of his life, until he started having some worrisome symptoms in 1994. For months, Forshee was experiencing a persistent dry cough, and would get overheated quickly.

When Tim Cornett tested positive for COVID-19 in January 2022, he didn’t think much of it. He was 55, fit, an healthy.

When Lina St. Preux, 44, was six months pregnant, her doctor informed her of devastating news – her baby had a congenital heart defect.

Jeffrey Hackman, a firefighter with the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Aviation Division, was used to jumping in front of danger to save lives. However, in 2015, he found his life in danger when his doctor discovered traces of blood in his urine during a routine physical.

The transplant marked the 99th and 100th procedures performed at MTI using the da Vinci Surgical System.

Reaching some of life’s major milestones hasn’t always seemed possible for Liliana Hernandez, who has been living on borrowed time. As a great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and wife, she hoped for the day that her prayers would be answered.

Tyra Starnes was shocked when her primary care doctor diagnosed her with chronic kidney disease. Up until that point, the 25-year-old West Palm Beach elementary school teacher felt healthy. However, as her kidneys continued to deteriorate, Starnes started feeling the effects of the disease.

“When Harold arrived at the hospital, he was experiencing shortness of breath, and we quickly discovered he was in cardiogenic shock, which means his heart could not pump enough blood through his body,” Dr. Phancao said.

When Araceli Cantero Obregón was seven months pregnant, doctors in Nicaragua told her that her son Edgard Sequeira would have hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up within the ventricles of the brain.