The parents of a 4-year-old girl who underwent three open-heart surgeries before her first birthday got their first-ever tattoos to show their daughter she is not alone. Matt Backe, of Crystal ...

Everly Backe, who was born with a congenital heart defect, was just 3 days old when she had her first open-heart surgery These parents found a very special way to honor their 4-year-old daughter ...

Matt Backe shows off his new tattoo, a rendition of an open-heart surgical scar, just like the scar that his 4-year-old daughter, Everly, has. Everly Backe has endured three open heart surgeries ...

The operations have left a visible mark on her chest that the now 4-year-old girl is becoming more aware of. “She can tell you, ‘I got this scar because the doctors fixed my heart.

This project rose out of a multi-university partnership of researchers who were awarded a grant in 2021 from the National Science Foundation's ASCENT program to study chest e-tattoo technology.

Health Wearable chest e-tattoo created by UT Austin researchers could detect early heart disease The wearable device will give clinicians a better chance to catch red flags for heart disease early.