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Combining expertise with ingenuity, a team of cardiovascular specialists fixes a rare heart defect in a premature baby.

Preoperative planning—and a multidisciplinary approach—foster success in complex repairs of congenital mitral stenosis.

A young boy is diagnosed with ARCAPA, a congenital heart defect so rare that the CHLA cardiologist who diagnosed the condition had never encountered it before in more than two decades of pediatric

Here’s how the team performed the procedure, which spared a teen from open-heart surgery.

Two Heart Institute surgeons share their thoughts on the importance of the Starnes procedure and a team approach to care.

A Children’s Hospital Los Angeles team has performed the first-in-human implant of a cardiac stent for babies that can be expanded to adult size as a child grows.

Ten years after Desiree’s third open-heart surgery for congenital heart defects at CHLA’s Heart Institute, her family knew exactly where they needed to be when it was time for her fourth and fifth.

The Ross procedure offers children the opportunity to have an aortic valve replacement that is their own valve: the pulmonary valve.

Born with the same heart defect, father-and-son Jeff and Bryce had their lives saved decades apart by the same surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.