Congenital Heart Valve Program | Patient Resources

Many adults with congenital heart defects — whether diagnosed in childhood or later in life — need lifelong, specialized care. In this webinar, Boston Children’s adult congenital heart experts discuss how a deep understanding of pediatric and adult heart care helps them manage complex conditions and support long-term health across all aspects of life.

A partial heart transplant (or human heart valve transplant) replaces a diseased heart valve with a healthy valve from a donor. In this webinar, our heart valve and heart transplant specialists share how the transplanted valve has the potential to grow along with a patient and explain why recovery could require a lesser amount of immunosuppressives.

Our heart valve specialists first try to repair a child’s diseased valve to help them avoid further surgeries and to keep their own natural tissue. In this webinar, they discuss how they determine whether a patient is a candidate for a valve repair instead of replacement and how 3D models help plan for surgery.

Repairing the AV canal

An atrioventricular (AV) canal defect is a combination of conditions that create a large defect in the center of the heart. In this video, Dr. Christopher Baird, a cardiac surgeon and director of Boston Children’s Congenital Heart Valve Program, explains how his team repairs an AV canal defect with the aim of improving circulation and a child’s health.