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Image As part of Children's Hospital Boston's ongoing effort to promote medical education and allow physicians and consumers to see the latest and most innovative medical treatments available to them, we have produced a series webcasts.
Craniofacial Webcast
Craniofacial Webcast Watch the removal of encephalocele and a life-threatening arachnoid cyst that saved a Hatian baby's life.

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Craniofacial Webcast
Craniofacial Webcast Watch a craniofacial procedure to treat a rare skeletal deformity, an encephalocele, and a life-threatening arachnoid cyst. Surgeons discuss diagnosis, treatment and long-term outlook, as well as the child's journey from his home in Haiti to Children's Hospital Boston.
Robotically-Assisted Ureteral Reimplantation
Hiep T. Nguyen, MD Featured physicians: Alan B. Retik, MD, FAAP, FACS, Hiep T. Nguyen, MD, and Joseph G Borer, MD.

Watch an archive of urolgists performing an intravesical ureteral reimplantation using robotic-assisted surgery to correct vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in a patient. The team discusses additional procedures that can be carried out using the minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgical techniques such as pyeloplasty, continent urinary diversion and bladder augmentation.

Exstrophy of the Bladder
Bladder exstrophy Featured clinicians: Carol E. Barnewolt, MD, Joseph G. Borer, MD, FAAP , Bruce F. Cohen, MD (BIDMC), Rosemary Grant, BSN, RN, Luanne P. Nemes, RN, MS, PNP, Alan B. Retik, MD, FAAP, FACS

Children's Center for Bladder Exstrophy Care & Support team discuss exstrophy of the bladder including diagnosis, surgical treatment (with excerpts of a complete repair procedure), lifelong management and one family's perspective.

Cardiac Surgery: LV rehabilitation in Borderline LV
Image Featured physicians: Emile A. Bacha, MD, Pedro J. del Nido, MD, and Gerald R. Marx, MD.

Cardiac surgeons from Children's Hospital Boston peform an endocardial fibroelastosis resection on borderline LV.

Interventional Catheterization: Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve
Dr. Lock Featured physicians: Peter Lang, MD, James E. Lock, MD, and Doff McElhinney, MD.

Cardiologists from Children's Hospital Boston implant a Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV), currently in clinical trial at Children's and two other pediatric hospitals in the United States.

Specialists review rare vascular anomalies
Patient Featured physicians: John Mulliken, MD, Steven Fishman, MD, Judah Folkman, MD, Horacio Padua, MD, Ahmad Alomari, MD, Darren B. Orbach, MD, PhD, James R. Kasser, MD, Victor L. Fox, MD, Giannoula Klement, MD, Harry P.W. Kozakewich, MD, Harriet J. Paltiel, MD, Edward Smith, MD.

Watch specialists at Children's Hospital Boston as they discuss and diagnose unique cases that have been presented to them by other institutions for their internationally recognized expertise.
MRI & Neurophysiologically Guided Brain Tumor Resection
mobile intraoperative MR unit Featured physicians: Joseph R. Madsen, MD, Mark R. Proctor, MD, R. Michael Scott, MD, Frank H. Duffy, MD, Liliana C. Goumnerova, MD, Mark Kieran, MD, PhD, Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD, Craig D. McClain, MD, Caroline Robson, MB, ChB

Watch neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital Boston perform a craniotomy on a pediatric patient live from the MR/OR, the first and only system of its kind at a pediatric hospital in the country.

Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) Webcast
STEP procedure illustration Featured physicians: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, MPH, Dario O. Fauza, MD, Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD, Heung Bae Kim, MD

Watch surgeons at Children's Hospital Boston perform a STEP procedure on a patient during a live webcast. The STEP procedure, which was developed at Children's, lengthens the intestines of children with short bowel syndrome (SBS).

Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR")
X-ray of VEPTR Featured physicians: John B. Emans, MD, James R. Kasser, MD, Daniel J. Hedequist, MD

Watch surgeons implant a VEPTR" in a pediatric patient during a live webcast.

Minimally Invasive Robotic Assisted Surgery
to Correct Obstructed Kidney
Image Featured physicians: Craig A. Peters, MD, Alan B. Retik, MD

View live from the operating room a pediatric robotic assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty to remove an obstruction from a patient's kidney and reconnect the kidney's drainage system.

Children's Advanced Fetal Care Center's Panel Discussion
On Fetal Cardiac Interventions
Featured physicians: Wayne Tworetzky, MD, Children's Hospital Boston, Louise E. Wilkins-Haug, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Carol B. Benson, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital

The panel offer up-to-date information on the latest treatments and interventions for patients with complex fetal anomalies, as well as expert discussion on diagnosis and state-of-the-art technologies from some of the world's leading practitioners in fetal medicine. Children's Hospital Boston, the pioneer in fetal cardiac intervention, has performed more than 50 procedures to date.

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MRI & Neurophysiologically Guided Brain Tumor Resection Webcast
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