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Children's Hospital Boston has been at the forefront of pediatric heart surgery since 1938 when Robert Gross, MD, performed the first operation to correct a congenital heart defect. In the years since that groundbreaking procedure, the Cardiac Surgery department at Children's has grown to become the largest in the United States and one of the foremost in the world.
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Each year, the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program provides surgical care to approximately 1,100 patients, including over 725 cases of open heart surgery (which require cardiopulmonary bypass), and 400 closed cases (which do not require bypass), with extraordinary success rates.
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New surgical techniques continue to be developed to treat numerous types of congenital heart conditions--from the simplest abnormality to the most complex--in newborns, infants, children, adolescents and adults.
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Medical mission to Ghana
How a team of cardiac specialists dealt with the challenges of bringing much-needed surgical care to a third-world country.
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Children's ranked #1 in U.S.News & World Report for Heart and Heart Surgery
