UAB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Professor Benjamin Wei, M.D., recently performed the first pediatric thoracic surgery utilizing a robotic surgical system at Children’s of Alabama marking a ...

The new head of a pediatric heart surgery division at the Cleveland Clinic will bring with him a program that helps Greek children who need cardiac operations. Dr. Constantine Mavroudis will chair the ...

Professional societies agreed that U.S. centers performing pediatric and congenital heart surgery should be formally reorganized into two tiers with volume requirements designed to maintain surgical ...

After months of controversy surrounding its Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery program, St. Mary's Medical Center announced on Monday it was shutting the program down.Watch the mobile reportThe program ...

The Division of Pediatric Surgery at Saint Louis University Medical Center is based at the SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Patients from birth through age 18 ...

Surgical correction of congenital heart defects often requires the use of valves, patches, or conduits to establish anatomic continuity. Homografts, xenografts, or mechanical prosthetic devices are ...

UK hospital and Kentucky Children's Hospital on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 11, 2012. Herald-Leader An internal review of the University of Kentucky's pediatric ...

A two-member team of doctors in the capital have successfully conducted pediatric cardiothoracic surgery on a six-month child, it was first of its kind successful surgery in Pakistan. According to the ...

University of Kentucky HealthCare will pay Dr. Mark Plunkett more than $1 million as part of a settlement after Plunkett's pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program at UK was shut down and he resigned ...