300 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 355-6000 Clinical Services: Cardiac Surgery Back to Cardiovascular Programs & Services List 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. In the News Tech-savvy surgeon a medical ambassador for repairing cardiac defects: Heart doctor without borders Dr. Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Children's Hospital, is not skipping a beat in his quest to improve surgical techniques on children born with heart defects. Each year, the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program provides surgical care to more than 1,200 patients, including over 766 cases of open heart surgery (which require cardiopulmonary bypass), and 442 closed cases (which do not require bypass), with extraordinary success rates. 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. Related topics: ALCAPA Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR or PAPVR) Aortic Stenosis Aortopulmonary Window Arrhythmia Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Atrioventricular Canal Defect Bacterial Endocarditis Cardiac Catheterization Cardiac Tumor Cardiovascular MRI Congestive Heart Failure Double Outlet Right Ventricle Ebstein's Anomaly Echocardiography Electrocardiogram (EKG) Heart Transplant Heart Valves Heart and Blood Vessels Hemitruncus Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Patent Ductus Arteriosus Pulmonary Atresia Pulmonary Hypertension Pulmonary Stenosis Scimitar Syndrome (PAPVR) Septal Defects Single Ventricle Defects Tetralogy of Fallot Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR) Transesophageal Echocardiography Transposition of the Great Arteries Tricuspid Atresia Truncus Arteriosus Valvar Atresia Vascular Ring Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery minimize list Related topics: ALCAPA Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR or PAPVR) Aortic Stenosis see entire list Children's ranked #1 in U.S.News & World Report for Heart and Heart Surgery Cardiac Surgery Statistics & Outcomes Read stories about our patients Create your own personal webpage with Carepages Webcasts live from the cath lab and the cardiac OR The information on this website should not be taken as medical advice, which can only be given to you by your personal health care professional. Copyright © Children's Hospital Boston. All rights reserved.