Christian Pizarro, MD, has joined New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System as chief of congenital heart surgery and director of pediatric cardiovascular surgery. Dr. Pizarro is an internationally ...

In the 1940s, the survival rate for infants born with congenital heart defects was less than 10%. Now, breakthroughs in the detection and treatment of congenital heart defects have greatly improved ...

In a medical records study covering thousands of children, a U.S.-Canadian team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine concludes that while surgery to correct congenital heart disease (CHD) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...

A study has shown that prenatal diagnosis, or diagnosis before a baby is born, is associated with earlier surgery for babies with congenital heart defects, the most common birth defects affecting ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Internationally distinguished surgeon-scientist Jose L. Peiro Ibanez, MD, PhD, joins Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone as director of the newly ...

Patrick J. Javid, M.D.: laparoscopic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, neonatal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease; Seattle Children’s Hospital, OA.9.220 – Surgery, 4800 Sand Point Way N.E., Ocean ...

Background Congenital anomalies are among the common health problems faced by children in low- and middle-income countries, ...

Runner gets open-heart surgery after childhood congenital heart defect surgery. Feb. 6, 2013— -- Like many relatively recent college graduates, Jane Lee wasn't always on top of her doctor's ...

SAN DIEGO -- Congenital heart surgeons are trying to revamp their profession by stiffening the rules for training and competency, with the goal being to better control the talent joining their ranks ...