Lifesaving heart surgery and cardiac rehabilitation enables a...

#CHOPHeartWarrior Hunter loves playing music, participating in his school’s marching band, and running cross country. But when he had an emergency cardiac episode earlier this year that required a helicopter transport to CHOP from a local hospital near his home in Pine Grove, PA, his active lifestyle came to a pause. Here, he was treated for permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia (PJRT), an abnormally fast heartbeat, and underwent an ablation surgery. During his recovery in our Cardiac C