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Children's Hospital Boston has been at the forefront of pediatric heart surgery since 1938 when Robert Gross, MD, performed the first operation to correct a congenital heart defect. In the years since that groundbreaking procedure, the Cardiac Surgery department at Children's has grown to become the largest in the United States and one of the foremost in the world.
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Each year, the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program provides surgical care to more than 1,200 patients, including over 766 cases of open heart surgery (which require cardiopulmonary bypass), and 442 closed cases (which do not require bypass), with extraordinary success rates.
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New surgical techniques continue to be developed to treat numerous types of congenital heart conditions--from the simplest abnormality to the most complex--in newborns, infants, children, adolescents and adults.
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Children's ranked #1 in U.S.News & World Report for Heart and Heart Surgery
