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The aim is to find out how overall health and wellness is related to need for pain medication after surgery.

Learn about the development of bacterial infections in shunted hydrocephalus.

This study is recruiting CHLA staff/employees/trainees to participate in a study assessing the efficacy of different types of video in teaching a surgical skill to novices. Participants will complete a survey and a medical training task, watch a video, and then repeat the medical training task in 2 weeks.

To determine the safety and feasibility of autologous umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cells delivered into the myocardium of the right ventricle during planned Stage II Glen surgical procedure for individuals with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

This study will evaluate the effect of Denosumab on lumbar spine mineral density (BMD), as assessed by dual-energy X-Ray absorptiometry (DEXA) at 12 months in children 5 to 17 years of age with GIOP.

To assess the survival rate of subjects at 6 and 12 months following implantation of the Bioabsorbable pulmonary valve conduit. To assess the rate of conduit failures at 6 months, requiring re-intervention or reoperation.

There is currently a lack of information on critical questions surrounding laterality of ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO), the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic obstruction, the utility of retrograde pyelogram, and the appropriate management for patients with concurrent UPJO and ureterovesical junction obstruction (UVJO). Therefore, we propose first a retrospective study of all pyeloplasty’s completed at CHLA for UPJO to answer some of these critical questions. The results of this study may inform future studies in this realm. We will retrospectively review all cases of pyeloplasty completed at CHLA (from 2000 through present) to identify differences in outcomes.

Understand the experiences of patients and parents in treatment decision making for children with Neuromuscular Scoliosis (NMS).