John David Cleveland, MD News

Born with grave cardiac defects, Aaliyah was dying. A CHLA heart surgeon devised a way to keep her alive for close to 500 days until a donor heart was found.

A CHLA study shows that increased risks for the Ross in neonates and infants are due to more complex heart disease, not a child’s age.

A Children’s Hospital Los Angeles study sheds light on why some babies with complete atrioventricular canal defects develop early heart failure.

Shortly before Christmas 2021, she became the first patient born with a single ventricle to receive a ventricular assist device at CHLA—and continues to beat the odds.

Two Heart Institute physicians discuss a milestone ventricular assist device procedure at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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

وُلد الطفل Ali بثقب في قلبه يسمى عيب الحاجز الأذيني البطيني. قاد بحث والده عن أفضل جراح لإصلاح ذلك العيب إلى مستشفى
 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Baby Ali was born with a hole in his heart called atrioventricular septal defect. His father’s search for the best surgeon to fix it led them to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

A Heart Institute team is developing a new algorithm to guide care for patients with a rare heart defect.

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