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- Complex Heart Problems
- Congenital Heart Disease Overview
- Factors Contributing to Congenital Heart Disease
- Fetal Circulation
- Genetic Disorders Associated with Congenital Heart Disease
- Heart Defects Causing Extra Blood Flow Through the Lungs
- Heart Defects Causing Obstructions to Blood Flow
- Heart Defects Causing Too Little Blood Flow Through the Lungs
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Overview of Congenital Heart Disease
- Pulmonary Atresia (PA)
- Pulmonary Stenosis
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
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- Tricuspid Atresia (TA)
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Research
Pediatric cardiac surgeons at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital are actively involved in research. They are, for example, investigating the effects of congenital heart disease on ventricular function. Other current areas of research include:
Basic science research:
- Effects of cardiac surgery on ventricular function in infants and children, using state-of-the-art measuring techniques based on hemodynamics and echocardiography (NIH-funded study);
- Mitochondrial respiratory abnormalities in patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy;
- Genetics of ventricular hypertrophy.
Current clinical research projects include:
- Visions - a prospective trial of BT (Blalock-Taussig) shunt vs. Sano connection in the Norwood procedure;
- Investigation of biventricular pacing for acute heart failure after cardiac surgery;
- Use of TEG (thromboelastography) to evaluate hypercoagulability in single ventricle patients pre- and post-Fontan completion;
- Evaluation of mechanical cardiac support as a bridge to heart transplant.
- Cardiac Surgery
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