Objective: Procalcitonin has emerged as a promising infection marker, but previous reports from small-sized studies suggest nonspecific elevation of procalcitonin after pediatric heart surgery. As ...

A study of pediatric heart surgery centers across the United States has demonstrated that, when it comes to successful surgery, it's not just the size of the program that matters in determining ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(9):885-886. A few thoughts are worth considering in the evaluation of PICSIM. First, the physiological variables in the PICSIM score provide only a small improvement in ...

Forty years ago, all eyes were on Kentucky as "Baby Calvin" made history as he received the state's first pediatric heart ...

PeriCor, a company co-founded by mechanical engineering PhD student Justin Opfermann, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Walker Farrington, 7, was diagnosed with congenital heart defects before birth ...

Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery. Doctors expected her to have an operation around 6 months of age. When it became apparent in ...

UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Cardiovascular Institute patient services were recently recognized in Newsweek’s list of the World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2026, highlighting its ...

James Antaki’s efforts to develop a baby’s heart were close to success when his federal funding was cut off. The grants were ...