Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Clinical Services (Cardiovascular Program):
Experienced Physicians
Doctor preforming surgery Performing more than 3,000 surgeries and catheterizations as well as numerous physiology studies and echocardiograms each year, the Cardiovascular Program at Children's Hospital Boston is the largest pediatric cardiovascular service in the United States.

Throughout the years, the Cardiovascular Program at Children's has been in the forefront of patient care and clinical innovation and research, and has attracted physicians from around the world with expertise in treating pediatric heart conditions.

The program is comprised of over 60 physicians.

Highlights:
  • Largest pediatric cardiovascular program in the United States.

  • Our Cardiologists have been awarded several awards and honors, including these in 2007.

  • The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit is the largest such unit managing children with congenital and acquired heart disease in the United States

  • Cardiovascular Program physicians perform 1,600 cardiac catheterizations each year, including the greatest number of pediatric interventional catheterizations in the world.

  • Six pediatric cardiovascular surgeons, Pedro del Nido, MD, Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD, John Mayer, Jr., MD, Emile Bacha, MD, Frank Pigula, MD, and Sitaram Emani perform more than 1,000 operations each year.

  • Eightcardiac anesthesiologists specialize in providing sedation and anesthesia for more than 1,000 types of cardiac surgical procedures.

  • The Kawasaki Disease Program, staffed by Jane Newburger, MD, David Fulton, MD, and Robert Sundel, MD, serves as a national and international resource for parents and physicians.

  • Since its inception in 1986, Children's Heart Transplant Program doctors have performed more than 184 heart transplants making it one of the largest pediatric heart transplant programs in the country.

  • Department of Cardiology physicians have pioneered techniques for interventional catheterization repair of many types of congenital cardiac defects, perfected methods for noninvasive preoperative diagnosis, and developed techniques for catheter ablation of arrhythmias.

  • Children's Fetal Program has pioneered a new in utero procedure to correct hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a heart defect that is otherwise fatal without surgical intervention or heart transplant.
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