Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The most common type of birth defect in the U.S. are congenital heart defects, affecting around 40,000 births each year according to the CDC. Out of that group, about 25% of ...

Christian Ellington, age 4 of Phenix City, was among the first heart catheterization patients in the new Bruno Pediatric Heart Center on Monday. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Oct. 15, 2012) – The Joseph S. Bruno ...

Dr. David Kalfa is pioneering new frontiers in pediatric surgery. In 2023, he performed the world's first "domino" infant heart transplant, a groundbreaking procedure during which a donated heart ...

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 ...

In this episode, Sunita Ferns, MD, Director – Pediatric and Adult Invasive Electrophysiology, Harma Turbendian, MD – Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon, & Mark Plunkett, MD – Chief of Pediatric and Congenital ...

Since its inception as an adjunct to cardiopulmonary bypass in the late 1980s, modified ultrafiltration (MUF) has evolved into a pivotal strategy for mitigating the systemic inflammatory response and ...

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 ...

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

MIAMI, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Renowned pediatric cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Joseph M. Forbess has joined Nicklaus Children's Pediatric Specialists (NCPS) as chief of the Section of ...