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Pediatric Heart Surgery

The Tulane Pediatric Heart Center team has years of experience and impeccable results using the advanced techniques for even the most complex defects. We have deep expertise in neonatal surgery and where some centers approach children with multiple staged operations (including shunts and bands); we achieve safe, single stage repairs whenever possible. Tulane is one of the only centers in the country to employ 3-pronged neuromonitoring (blood flow, brain oxygen saturations and EEG) to minimize neurologic risk during and after open heart surgery.

Specialties include: 

  • Septal Defects
    • ASDs (Atrial Septal Defects)
    • VSDs (Ventricular Septal Defects)
    • AV Canal Defects (Atrioventricular Septal Defects)
  • Valve Repairs and Replacements
    • Aortic, Pulmonary, Tricuspid, Mitral Valves
    • Ebstein’s Anomaly
  • Aortic Coarctation and Aortic Arch Repair
  • Tetralogy of Fallot 
  • Transposition of the Great Arteries (Arterial Switch Repair)
  • Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
  • Truncus Arteriosus
  • Coronary Artery Abnormalities
  • Single Ventricle Repairs
    • BT Shunt or Pulmonary Artery Banding
    • Glenn Procedure
    • Fontan Procedure
  • Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
    • Staged Surgical Repair for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
      • Stage 1:  Norwood Operation
      • Stage 2:  Bidirectional Glen Operation
      • Stage 3:  Fontan Operation
    • Hybrid Palliation
      • Placement of Bilateral Pulmonary Artery Bands
      • Ductal Stenting
      • Atrial Septostomy or Atrial Stent Implantation
  • Pacemaker
  • AICD (Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator)