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 | 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.

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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).

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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

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

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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.

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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

Researchers analyzing surveillance data on 518 children and adolescents with MIS-C who were admitted to U.S. hospitals in 2020 fopiund those treated with intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) plus glucocorticoids had a lower risk of new or persistent cardiovascular dysfunction than IVIG alone. Left photo Getty Images, right photo Nemours Children’s Health System.

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Study Provides MIS-C Treatment Guidance To Avoid Cardiovascular Dysfunction

June 28, 2021 - A recent analysis found that children and adolescents with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children ...

June 28, 2021

News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

FDA Clears Pradaxa as First Oral Anticoagulant for Children

June 21, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Boehringer Ingelheim's dabigatran etexilate ...

June 21, 2021

PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

PolyVascular Awarded $2 Million Small Business Innovation Research Grant to Bring the First Polymer-Based Heart Valve for Children to Clinical Trials

May 13, 2021 — PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve ...

May 13, 2021

University of Minnesota researchers used a hybrid of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to create heart valves that can grow with the recipient. When implanted in lambs, researchers showed that the tri-tube valves worked better than current animal-derived valves with almost none of the calcification or blood clotting that the other valves showed. This can be implanted in pediatric patients with congenital heart diseas. Photo from Syedain, et al., Tranquillo Lab, University of Minnesota

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Lab-created Heart Valves Can Grow With the Patient

March 18, 2020 — A groundbreaking new study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers from both the College ...

March 18, 2021

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More Than 50,000 Children Screened for Congenital Heart Defects Using AI-enabled Stethoscopes

February 16, 2021 – In recognition of World Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness week, HD Medical Inc. announced it ...

February 16, 2021