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Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
This is surgery to the heart to replacement heart shortage in a child. The defects may be congenital (defects that a child is born with) or heart disease that a child obtains after birth. Pediatric cardiac surgery is sugary for congenital heart defects [defects at birth]. The incidence of congenital heart defects is 8 per 1000 live births. Pediatric cardiac surgery deals with closed and open heart surgeries. Closed heart surgery is a procedure without the heart lung machine.
Pediatric cardiac surgery is a unique specialty as it deals with very small children and newborns with major heart defects. The surgeries are very complex, demanding and needs great dexterity for good results. The other important factor is that children with heart defects are very fragile with a narrow margin of safety.
The surgical team at the department has excessive expertise in neonatal repairs, arrhythmia surgery, coronary artery problems, vascular rings, tracheal abnormalities and mitral valve repair. The team leads the nation in arrhythmia surgery, integrating this technique into repair of congenital heart shortage in infants and children.
