Pediatric Cardiology

This channel includes news regarding new technologies used in the specialized care for diagnosing and treating children with heart conditions. This includes advanced diagnostics for evaluating and treating pediatric heart conditions such as congenital heart defects, cardiac arrhythmias and acquired heart diseases.

News | Structural Heart Occluders

Surgeons Use Novel Occluder with a Metal-Free Frame on a Patient with ASD

May 5, 2022 – Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital recently announced the successful treatment of a patient with atrial ...

May 05, 2022

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Launches Research Institute Dedicated to Advancing the Care of Pediatric Cardiovascular Diseases

April 18, 2022 – Deepening its commitment to pediatric cardiovascular research, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ...

April 18, 2022

A new study by physicians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has identified unique features of MIS-C, a rare but potentially deadly complication of COVID in children, that suggest how the syndrome gets started.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Study Suggests How Post-COVID Syndrome, MIS-C, Gets Started in Children

March 11, 2022 – A new study by physicians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has ...

March 11, 2022

As 1-year-old SaRyia Moore and her family celebrate American Heart Month, they do so will full, grateful hearts — including SaRyia's transplanted heart she received just eight weeks ago, saving her young life.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Texas Children's Hospital Passes Milestones of More Than 500 Heart Transplants, 2,000 Solid Organ Transplants

March 2, 2022 – As 1-year-old SaRyia Moore and her family celebrate American Heart Month, they do so will full, grateful ...

March 02, 2022

The Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) has performed its 500th pediatric heart transplant, a milestone that only a few centers across the country have reached.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

500th Heart Transplant Performed at Children’s Hospital Colorado

February 16, 2022 – The Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) has performed its 500th pe ...

February 16, 2022

News | Pediatric Cardiology

UCF-led Team Demonstrates Effectiveness of Device Aimed at Helping Babies with Heart Defects Survive

January 15, 2022 – Babies who are born with only one functioning heart ventricle must undergo a series of three ...

February 15, 2022

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Doctor Pioneers Pacemaker Procedure in Kids

February 15, 2022 — UC Davis pediatric electrophysiologist Dan Cortez placed two objects onto the table in front of ...

February 15, 2022

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving treatment for critically ill neonates. But there has been little data published on which of these patients are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital later on.

News | ECMO Systems

Researchers Identify Factors That May Help Predict Which Neonatal ECMO Patients Will Have to Return to the Hospital

February 8, 2022 — Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving treatment for critically ill neonates ...

February 08, 2022

New study finds children treated for MIS-C had normal heart function within three months after their first symptoms

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Heart Function Recovers Quickly in Children With COVID-19 Related MIS-C

January 19, 2022 — Heart function recovery returned within three months in children who developed COVID-19 related multi ...

January 19, 2022

The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) picked 5 companies to award its “Make Your Medical Device Pitch for Kids!” competition. These include the PeriCor PeriTorq device (upper right), the Inkspace Imaging lightweight pediatric MRI could (lower right), and the Sibel Anne-One witless ICU neonate cardiopulmonary monitoring system (lower left).

News | Congenital Heart

5 Pediatric Cardiology Medical Device Competition Winners Recognized for Innovation

December 14, 2021 – The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) announces five awardees ...

December 14, 2021

Feature | EP Lab

When Do Children Need Pacemakers and Defibrillators?

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles cardiologist Michael Silka, M.D., helped to pioneer the development of indications for ...

December 07, 2021

Videos | Structural Heart

VIDEO: Roles of the Melody and Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valves in Congenital Heart Disease

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac cath labs, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and principle investigator of the Medtronic ...

September 28, 2021

Videos | Congenital Heart

VIDEO: The Heart Team Approach in Congenital Structural Heart Interventions

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac cath labs, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains the importance of the heart team ...

September 15, 2021

A team at the University of South Australia designed a computer vision system that can automatically detect a baby’s face in a hospital bed and remotely monitor its vital signs from a digital camera with the same accuracy as a traditional ECG machine.

News | ECG

Noncontact ECG Monitoring a Step Closer for Neonatal Wards

September 1, 2021 — University of South Australia researchers have designed a computer vision system that can ...

September 01, 2021

The Xeltis synthetic polymer restorative pulmonary valve is implanted surgically and acts as a scaffold for the patient's own cells to proliferate. The valve and conduit then bioresorbs over time, leaving behind a new valve made from the patient's own cells. The hope is this will reduce or eliminate the need for numerous repeat surgeries as a pediatric patient grows.

Feature | Heart Valve Technology

Xeltis Begins Pivotal Trial for Pulmonary Valve That Grows With the Patient

July 8, 2021 – Xeltis announced it started the first pivotal trial for a synthetic polymer restorative pulmonary valve ...

July 08, 2021