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Clinical Services (Cardiovascular Program):
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One of the Cardiovascular Surgery Department's missions is to continuously improve the treatment of children with congenital heart disease and to advance the science that underlies these treatments.

To help meet this goal, the department maintains an active laboratory research program that is focused on myocardial preservation and development of tissue engineered cardiac valves and blood vessels.

The principal areas of active research between robotics and tissue engeneering are:

  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (avoidance of Norwood procedure by Hybrid Stage I)
  • Certain types of ventricular septal defects (closure on the beating heart with devices)
  • Using balloons to open valves during surgery
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Related publications
Heart Murmurs: A Publication for Physicians & Nurses about the Cardiovascular Program at Children's
  • Cardiac Surgery Results
  • Regional Cerebral Perfusion during infant cardiac surgery
  • The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Routine Preoperative Evaluation Prior to Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  • Three-dimensional echocardiography-guided atrial septectomy: an experimental study
    Give to this DepartmentPromoting angiogenesis protects severely hypertrophied hearts from ischemic injury
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