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- Anomalous Coronary Artery (ACA)
- Aortic Stenosis
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
- 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
- Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
- Tricuspid Atresia (TA)
- Truncus Arteriosus
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Cardiac Surgery
Jan M. Quaegebeur, MD
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian HospitalRalph S. Mosca, MD
Site Chief, Cardiac Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's HospitalThe pediatric cardiac surgery program of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital offers a breadth and depth of experience that is incomparable, providing young patients with heart defects treatment options never thought possible just a short time ago.
A regional and national leader in pediatric open heart surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has one of the largest pediatric heart transplant programs in the nation. Our ability to transplant higher-risk patients enables us to accept children into the program who could not be helped at other institutions. We provide specialized surgical expertise for congenital heart disease, valve repairs, and ventricular and aortic artery defects. In addition, our surgeons are renowned for the implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators in infants and children using endocardial techniques. Our surgeons are also recognized for neonatal heart surgery, and many of the open heart procedures we perform are in children under the age of one month.
Each year, our pediatric cardiac surgeons perform approximately 700 operations. This high volume of pediatric heart surgery translates into successful outcomes. A report released by the New York State Department of Health in 2007 showed that Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is a leader in the State for best outcomes for surgeries performed on children with congenital heart defects.
Through Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, we can offer not only the cardiovascular expertise, but all levels of care that might be needed when treating a complex heart problem. Our patients and their families benefit from the range of pediatric medical and surgical specialties and the numerous resources and services available at a major hospital devoted to children.
The commitment of our staff has grown out of a shared understanding of the magnitude of their responsibility of saving children with serious heart defects and disease. Our cardiac nurses, pediatric anesthesiologists, pediatric cardiologists, cardiac catheterization specialists, intensivists, pediatricians, and many others each contribute their expertise and their compassion to the care of our young patients to promote their return to a normal, healthy, and active childhood.
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