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 ...

The UAB Section of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Division of Pediatric Cardiology has been ranked in the top 20 children’s hospitals for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery by USA News & World ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly half of all teens with a history of cardiac surgery still used more than one medication. Clinicians must ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prophylactic corticosteroids do not reduce in-hospital mortality in children who undergo cardiac surgery.

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 ...

Thanks to Colsie Myrie and her team in the Congenital Cardiovascular Care Unit at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU ...

Stents used to widen blood vessels in treating congenital heart disease have remained unavailable in Japan for the past three ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dell Children’s Medical Center announced Monday it had successfully performed a partial heart transplant on an 11-month-old boy, marking the first of its kind in Texas and the seventh ...