ECMO provides life support care. The ECMO machine takes over the work of the heart, lungs, or both.

Reduction thyrochondroplasty is done to give a person a more female-looking neck. A surgeon removes some of the Adam’s apple.

You may not agree with the gender you were given at birth. You may instead feel like you are a different gender. If this mismatch between your own gender identity and that assigned at birth seriously upsets you, you may have gender dysphoria.

Subcutaneous mastectomy and chest contouring is done to give a person a more male-looking chest.

This type of brain surgery helps fix a problem with a VP shunt.

A tunneled catheter is one type of vascular access for hemodialysis.

Mpox is an illness caused by a virus. It can cause fever, swollen lymph nodes, body aches, and a rash with blisters that hurt.

Encephalocele is a rare birth defect. It’s when part of a child’s skull doesn’t form all the way, leaving a hole.

A dandy walker malformation (DWM) is a birth defect of the brain. It’s when the cerebellum doesn’t form the right way as a fetus develops.