If your child needs surgery to repair a heart problem, a pediatric heart (cardiac) surgeon has the knowledge and experience to treat your child. Pediatric heart surgeons offer the special care needed to fix both congenital (existing at birth) and acquired heart problems in children.

Pediatric heart surgeons treat complex congenital heart defects in newborns, children, and adolescents, as well as adults. Congenital heart defects are very different from the types of heart diseases that are common among adults. Repairing hearts in small bodies presents an added challenge. Pediatric heart surgeons have the special skills needed to provide the safest care for even the youngest and smallest patients who require heart surgery.

What Types of Treatments Do Pediatric Heart Surgeons Provide?

Pediatric heart surgeons generally provide surgery for

• Correcting conditions such as holes between chambers of the heart, valve problems, and abnormal blood vessels
• Repairing injury to the heart
• Correcting other congential and acquired heart defects
• Heart, lung, and heart/lung transplants