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Children's fetal cardiac center
Fetal intervention established as viable treatment for defects

Children’s Hospital Boston has been a leader in pediatric cardiac care since 1938, when Robert Gross, MD, performed the world’s first successful surgical repair of a congenital cardiovascular defect, a patent ductus arteriosus. Today, that tradition is upheld by Children’s cardiologists, led by Cardiologist-in-Chief Jim Lock, MD, and clinicians from the Advanced Fetal Care Center (AFCC), led by pediatric and fetal surgeon Rusty Jennings, MD. Over the last 18 months, these teams have established fetal cardiac intervention as a viable treatment for fetuses with life-threatening cardiac defects...

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Safe haven
Inpatient psychiatric unit specializes in acute care

For patients, families and clinicians, treatment of psychiatric illnesses can be much more difficult than simply addressing the illness by itself. Few other diagnoses are as heavily dependent upon family involvement in treatment, and even fewer are as misunderstood and stigmatized. These challenges are even more pronounced when the patient has a comorbid medical illness...

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