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Perhaps even more importantly, Children's doctors have carefully scrutinized their own practice, developing one of the strongest records of safe and successful procedures. This has been true even though they handle an unusual number of high risk and complex cases.
1996: The Webster-Jenkins basket catheter is developed by Drs. Kathy Jenkins and James E. Lock to provide rapid diagnostic information in mapping multiple sites of cardiac arrhythmias.
1999: The FDA approves the use of CardioSEAL, a catheter-implanted device developed at Children's Hospital Boston to repair holes in the hearts of seriously ill heart patients.
2001: Interventional cardiologists at Children's Hospital Boston perform the world's first successful prenatal aortic valvuloplasty to prevent the progression of fetal aortic stenosis to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in a 19-week-old fetus. Children's cardiologists threaded a cardiac catheter through the fetus's aortic valve and inflated a balloon to widen the opening.
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