A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare’s Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient ...

A study of pediatric heart surgery centers across the United States has demonstrated that, when it comes to successful surgery, it's not just the size of the program that matters in determining ...

Owen Monroe was 18 days old when he made history, becoming the first person in the world to receive a partial heart transplant. His groundbreaking surgery, performed in 2022, even captured the ...

A former Cape Girardeau resident and Notre Dame Regional High School graduate is involved in some groundbreaking surgery procedures that could dramatically increase the number of children helped ...

Starting three years ago, a series of 19 children with a variety of heart conditions treated at Duke Health received living heart valve replacements, also known as a partial heart transplant. Now, ...

After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

The Institute is Among Handful of Pediatric Programs Nationally Offering the Ozaki Technique to Repair Aortic and Pulmonary Valves in Children ...

This article is brought to you by Manning Family Children's. Veronica Even expected to bring her newborn, Theodore, home for Christmas. Instead, she watched as he was rushed to Manning Family Children ...

Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have finalized an agreement that will steer some pediatric heart surgeries to the University of Kentucky, according to the ...

Dr. Joseph Turek, chief of pediatric heart surgery at Duke Health and the surgeon who created the partial heart transplant, said he believes that it could help hundreds of children every year in the ...