Patient Stories

When a bungee cord snapped and struck her eye, nurse Irene Fico turned to the ophthalmology team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, hoping they could preserve her sight. After a series of surgeries, they gave her close to perfect vision and helped her maintain it over a decade of care.

Austin was climbing the career ladder in New York City until substance use and an untreated mental health disorder upended his life. After a suicide attempt in 2022, Austin decided to seek help, entering NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health’s addiction rehabilitation program. Today, he lives a life of purpose in sobriety.

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With a large mass growing in Finnley’s neck and chest and threatening to block his airway before he was born, specialists performed a rare EXIT procedure, partially delivering the baby and immediately beginning lifesaving treatment.

In a rare procedure last year, a multidisciplinary transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian performed the state’s first heart, double lung, and liver transplant.

Born with a condition that stunted the growth of her face, Jade Metivier and her family turned to NewYork-Presbyterian for the complex surgical treatment she needed to breathe, speak and smile properly.

While navigating grief and falling in love, the novelist and screenwriter discovered she had leukemia – and turned to her doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to help her beat it.

In the first live recording of the Health Matters podcast, artist and multicancer survivor Kiley Durham discussed her cancer journey.

When triple-negative breast cancer spread to her brain and then her spinal fluid, Kiley believed she only had months to live. Her NewYork-Presbyterian care team refused to give up, tailoring a treatment plan that helped her beat the odds.

Born with a congenital heart condition known as tetralogy of Fallot, Yasin Samad needed multiple surgeries in the first few years of his life. But thanks to a collaborative effort across NewYork-Presbyterian and an innovative approach, Yasin is a thriving third-grader who's proud to share the story of his heart journey.