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Cardiac Surgery
Congenital Heart Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health have built a national reputation for outstanding care devoted to children. Our integrated Congenital Heart Center is one of the largest and most preeminent pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery centers in the nation.
Approximately 30,000 children -- or about one percent of all live births -- are born with congenital heart defects each year in the United States. Of these, about .2 to .3 percent require surgery. We provide patients with congenital heart defects treatment options never thought possible just a short time ago.
Our patients come to us from around the country and around the world to seek the most advanced, safest, and proven treatments for congenital heart conditions and for the revision of previous surgery when that treatment fails. Our outcomes are among the best in the nation.
A Leading Pediatric Heart Center
In 2010, U.S.News & World Report ranked our two pediatric hospitals -- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health/Weill Cornell Medical Center -- #6 in pediatric heart and heart surgery, reflecting our reputation and surgical outcomes, the expertise of our surgical teams, our volume of cases and other patient-care related data. In addition, the U.S.News & World Report survey has named the children's hospitals of NewYork-Presbyterian among the nation's top eight children's hospitals.
Therapeutic Excellence
We provide all therapies that a newborn, child, adolescent or adult with congenital heart disease may need -- from evaluating heart function and anatomy in utero to pediatric heart transplant and extended heart/lung support via Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). In addition, our surgeons are renowned for implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators in infants and children using endocardial techniques. They are also widely recognized for neonatal heart surgery, and many of the procedures we perform are in low-birth-weight newborns and in infants under the age of one month.
Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Care
Bringing together our pediatric surgical, medical, anesthesiology, perfusion, critical care and cardiovascular support specialists into an integrated care team helps us to optimize patient outcomes. This integrated care model enables us to provide seamless interaction with all subspecialties, resulting in the best and safest treatment for our youngest patients.
A family referred to the Center can be assured that they will be in the expert hands of a medical team renowned for excellence in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery and committed to a shared goal of providing our pediatric patients with the safest, most advanced surgical techniques available.
State-of-the-Art Interventional Catheterization
The Congenital Heart Center has the only pediatric catheterization laboratories in metropolitan New York dedicated to pediatric pulmonary hypertension and arrhythmia studies, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, such as radiofrequency ablation for cardiac arrhythmias and balloon valvuloplasty of the aortic and pulmonary valves. Many of the pediatric interventional procedures that have become standard of care worldwide have been developed by interventional cardiologists at NewYork-Presbyterian. A great number of congenital heart defects can now be treated in the cath lab, requiring only a single day of hospitalization and eliminating the need for open heart surgical repair.
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