Neonatal Cardiac Surgery

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Time is critical in the treatment of infants who are born with a serious congenital heart defect (CHD). When a child has surgery to repair CHD not long after birth, they quickly benefit from improved cardiac physiology and have a better chance of maturing and leading a healthy, full life.

Aortic arch repair
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) repair
Arterial switch operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries
The Norwood Procedure for single-ventricle heart disease
Neonatal Tetralogy of Fallot repair
Insertion of aortopulmonary shunts (i.e., BT shunt, Sano shunt, central shunt)
Coarctation of the aorta repair
Repair of truncus arteriosus
Complex valve repairs like neonatal Ebstein’s repair
Pulmonary artery banding for single-ventricle palliation
Pacemaker
Neonatal catheter interventions

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Aortic Valve Stenosis

The term “stenosis” describes an abnormal narrowing within a structure of the body. Aortic valve stenosis, therefore, refers to the narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve, a one-way valve located between the left ventricle — the pump that pushes blood out to the body — and the aorta, the major blood vessel that carries blood to different parts of the body