Minimally invasive tool uses light for beating-heart repairs
Last year, cardiologists at Boston Children’s Hospital reported developing a groundbreaking adhesive patch for sealing holes in the heart. The patch guides the heart’s own tissue to grow over it,...
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Cardiac RESTORE: Decreasing medication dependency in the cardiac intensive...
Children undergoing heart surgery need strong sedation and pain medications. Weaning them off these medications is complicated; many have withdrawal symptoms that require additional medications....
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3-D printed hearts of hope
Jason Ayres with son Patrick, Dr. Emani, and Patrick’s 3-D printed heart Jason Ayres, a family doctor in Alabama, was speechless as he held his adopted son Patrick’s heart in his hands. Well, a replica...
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Making ‘simple’ heart surgery simpler, with minimally invasive techniques
Tertiary care centers such as the Boston Children’s Hospital Heart Center have led the way in groundbreaking surgical innovations for years, pushing boundaries and correcting ever more complex...
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An energy boost to the heart: Infant’s own mitochondria save her life
She’s small for a six-month-old, but otherwise Avery Gagnon looks perfectly healthy. She smiles, kicks, laughs and grabs her toys and pacifiers. What you’d never know is that Avery has complex...
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Using newborns’ own umbilical cords as shunts for heart surgery
Cardiac surgery is reducing the use of plastic — starting with an operation for newborns who have life-threatening heart disease generally called single ventricle. Single ventricle is so dangerous...
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#TBT: How hyperbaric heart surgery saved infants’ lives in the 1960s
Boston Children’s surgical team entering the hyperbaric chamber, loaned from Harvard School of Public Health. From the Boston Sunday Globe, Feb. 10, 1963. In 1962, the Harvard School of Public Health...
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Pediatric heart surgeons eye sticky, stretchy, slug-inspired adhesive
Arion subfiscus, whose sticky mucus inspired the new surgical adhesive (H. Crisp/Wikimedia Commons) It’s been a challenge to develop a surgical adhesive that sticks to wet surfaces and isn’t toxic. But...
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A “half-hearted” solution to one-sided heart failure
Illustration showing sectional view of a heart with the soft robotic system helping to draw blood into (left) and pump blood out (right) of the heart’s right ventricle. Soft robotic actuators, which...
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Inhaled hydrogen could protect the brain during heart-lung bypass
ILLUSTRATION: ELENA HARTLEY / BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Newborns with life-threatening congenital heart disease often undergo open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, which carries a risk of...
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