The larger organizations looked
at pediatric heart surgery and saw nothing but risk.
Not exact matches
Sally Payne is the head
pediatric occupational therapist
at NHS Trust's
Heart of England Foundation.
«With the subcutaneous defibrillator, we now have a way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in
pediatric patients without having wires running through their veins and into the
heart,» says Dr. Rodrigo Nehgme, electrophysiologist and cardiologist
at Arnold Palmer Hospital.
«We focused on intramural ventricular septal defects, which are holes between two chambers of the
heart,» said Meryl S. Cohen, MD, senior author and
pediatric cardiologist
at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Neuregulin 1 is already being tested in adults to boost recovery from
heart failure, but it hasn't been tried in infants with
heart disease, says study coauthor Bernhard Kühn, a
pediatric cardiologist
at the University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
«With 3D printing, surgeons can make better decisions before they go into the operating room,» said Matthew Bramlet, M.D., study lead author and assistant professor of
pediatric cardiology and director of the Congenital
Heart Disease MRI Program
at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria.
Although this was the first
pediatric heart transplant performed
at the Hospitals, the University of Chicago has the second largest
heart transplant program in Illinois and has been performing
heart transplants for adults since 1984.
At trial, the
pediatric neurologist testified that Chelsea's death was not brought about a seizure, but rather by the focal interstitial chronic inflammation of Chelsea's
heart.
Her first action that year was funding a research grant to study cardiac abnormalities and sudden death in young adults
at Deborah
Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J. Helsinger did her own research and consulted with Dr. Fred Bierman, a renowned
pediatric cardiologist and friend, to determine where to direct the foundation's funds.