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Ranked #3 in the US
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in Texas
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for pediatric pediatric heart and pediatric heart
surgery by U.S. News & World Report ...
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PEDIATRIC HEART
SURGERY
Pediatric
heart surgery has been performed at Texas Children’s
Hospital since it opened in 1954. Today, Texas Children’s
Heart Center is recognized across the globe as a leader
in this highly specialized field. Heart center surgeons
perform more than 700 surgeries annually.
“Essentially, the philosophy of differences in pediatric
medicine applies to children’s heart surgery,” said
Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., chief of Congenital Heart
Surgery at Texas Children’s Heart Center. “We have
pediatricians because of the special medical needs of
children. The same considerations are true when treating a
child’s malformed heart, which has its own anatomy,
physiology and timing. Surgical procedures and
instrumentation are different from those for adults.”
A highly
skilled, multidisciplinary team, whose members are extensively trained and experienced is dedicated
exclusively to pediatric congenital heart surgery and
treatment. The heart center offers every cardiac therapy
available in pediatric medicine, and the care for each child
is individualized.
Heart
center surgeons also may offer a less invasive surgery
option to repair certain defects. Learn more about
minimally invasive
surgery.
“Not only
are the people here dedicated professionals, they are drawn
here because of a love for the children,” said
Dr. E. Dean McKenzie, a Texas Children’s congenital
heart surgeon. “Every day,
I witness nurses, physicians, child-life specialists, social
workers and others giving time and effort above and beyond
the call of duty because of the compassion they feel for
these children and their families. It’s a very special
place.”
Surgical
procedures performed at Texas Children's Heart Center
include:
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Aortic
arch advancement
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Aortic valve repair
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Arterial
switch
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Atrial septal
defect and
ventricular septal defect closures
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Atrioventricular canal repair
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Blalock-Taussig
shunt
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Coarctation repair
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Double-switch procedures
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Fontans
procedure
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Glenn
shunt
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Heart and lung
transplantations
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Norwood
operation
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Patent
ductus arteriosus ligation
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Rastelli
procedure
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Repair of
Ebstein's anomaly
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Repair of
anomalous coronary artery
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Ross
procedure
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Tetralogy of Fallot repair
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Transposition of great arteries repair
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Ventricular assist devices
