At 15 months old, Dr. Kyle Riggs had his first heart surgery. Now, he's a pediatric heart surgeon at the University of Kentucky, working to give other kids a bright future as well.

After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly half of all teens with a history of cardiac surgery still used more than one medication. Clinicians must ...

An 11-year-old girl in Colorado is now able to live a healthier life after the Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora was ...

In a rare and historic achievement, Children’s Hospital Colorado successfully completed its first dual heart and liver ...

A study of pediatric heart surgery centers across the United States has demonstrated that, when it comes to successful surgery, it's not just the size of the program that matters in determining ...

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) successfully performed the hospital's first-ever heart and liver dual ...

A former Cape Girardeau resident and Notre Dame Regional High School graduate is involved in some groundbreaking surgery procedures that could dramatically increase the number of children helped ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Surgery Professor and UAB James and John Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes Director James Kirklin, M.D., has been named president of ...

The Institute is Among Handful of Pediatric Programs Nationally Offering the Ozaki Technique to Repair Aortic and Pulmonary Valves in Children ...

Surgeons at Duke University Hospital successfully performed a "donation after circulatory death" (DCD) heart transplant in a pediatric patient, demonstrating the potential expansion of eligible donor ...