From bioengineers to interventional cardiologists, molecular biologists to cardiothoracic surgeons, experts with diverse backgrounds are focusing on the problem of heart valve disease in children.
A pair of surgeon-researchers is perfecting tissue engineered vascular grafts through bench, clinical and computational modeling studies.
Length of storage during cardiac surgeries appears to have no detrimental effects on blood.
A survival rate of 37-48 percent among young heart surgery patients who experience code events is the norm. A multidisciplinary review process helped achieve an 81 percent rate at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
For adolescent and adult survivors of congenital heart disease, how they perceive disease-related stress has a key connection to how they report health outcomes, such as quality of life and emotional well-being.
A parent’s touch reduces agitation, allows infants and toddlers to remain extubated after heart surgery.
How Strategies to Reduce Transfusions Are Changing Cardiothoracic Surgery
