Pediatric Cardiology News

In August, the FDA approved a novel miniaturized cardiac stent for infants and small children with coarctation of the aorta or pulmonary artery stenosis and can be expanded as they grew.

Infants conceived after assisted reproductive technology had a 36% greater risk for being born with a major heart defect, results from a large cohort study published in the European Heart Journal showed.

Texas Children’s Hospital was named the top hospital for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery in the 2024 to 2025 rankings by U.S. News & World Report for the eighth year in a row.

The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions will be held in-person only in Chicago from Nov. 16 to 18 and will feature eight late-breaking science sessions during the 3-day meeting.

A multidisciplinary quality improvement program to prevent cardiac arrest in the pediatric ICU provided sustained improvement in participating centers out to 2 years, researchers reported.

Congenital heart disease-related deaths from 2005 to 2019 were more prevalent among Black vs. white infants, a gap that persisted year after year, a speaker reported at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Cell-based therapies and enzyme inhibitors currently in development are likely to become the next-generation treatments for ambulatory and non-ambulatory forms of muscular dystrophy, according to a speaker.

Many recently recalled cardiovascular devices did not undergo premarket testing prior to FDA approval, and postmarket studies of the devices were slow and infrequent, researchers reported.

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health this year celebrated 50 years of pediatric heart transplants and more than 35 years of pediatric lung transplants, according to a press release.

The 2016 revisions to the United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric heart transplant allocation policy were not independently associated with a drop in waitlist mortality, researchers reported.