When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that pig hearts could keep critically ill babies alive while they wait for a transplant.

infants with single-ventricle heart disease have a critical need for new options. Currently, only about 30% of those babies will survive three months on a VAD, due to high rates of strokes ...

A CHLA heart surgeon presented the xenotransplant results in a plenary session at the International Society for Heart and ...

More information: Muhammad Bakr Ghbeis et al, Biventricular Repair of Univentricular Heart Lowers Risk of Liver Disease Compared With the Fontan Operation, JACC: Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j ...