Our pediatric cardiac surgery program provides the full spectrum of pediatric heart surgery care for neonatal, pediatric and adolescent cardiac patients.

Why is Children's Mercy the best hospital for heart surgery?
Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, ranks among the top three pediatric hospitals in the nation for annual volume of surgical procedures. Our heart surgery program is the only one within a 150- county region that offers cardiac surgery for newborns, and our pediatric heart surgery program also covers adults with congenital heart problems.

The best pediatric heart surgeons in the Midwest are at Children's Mercy.
Children's Mercy is the only hospital in the region where a board-certified pediatric intensivist is in-house 24 hours per day to provide care for children who need heart surgery. Read more about our pediatric heart surgeons.

Physicians

• Hopkins, Richard A. , MD, FACS, FACC
  Director, Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratories Chief, Adult/Adolescent Congenital Cardiac Surgery Professor of Surgery, UMKC School of Medicine
• Lofland, Gary , MD
  Section Chief, Cardiovascular Surgery The Joseph Boon Gregg/Missouri Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, 1999 The Joseph Boon Gregg/Missouri Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, 1999 Clinical Professor of Surgery
• O'Brien, James , MD
  Assistant Professor of Surgery

Cardiac Surgery for

• Atrial septal defect
• Ventricular septal defect
• Patent ductus arteriousis
• Coarctation of the aorta
• Single ventricle (Bidirectional Glenn and Fontan Operations)
• Atrioventricular canal defect
• Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction
• Transposition of great arteries
• Tetralogy of fallot
• Tricuspid atresia
• Ebstein's anomaly
• Vascular rings
• Interrupted aortic arch
• Coronary artery anomalies
• Cardiac masses
• Pulmonary stenosis
• Total (and partial) anomalous pulmonary venous connection
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (Norwood Operation)
• Aortic valve disease (aortic valve replacement/repair, Ross procedure)
• Truncus arteriosis
• Mitral valve disease
• Subaortic membrane
• Cortriatriatum
• Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
• Congenital heart block

Heart Surgery Services

• Consultation
• Prenatal consultation
• Surgical repair of all congenital heart defects
• Pediatric ancillary services essential for care of the family with a child undergoing cardiac surgery

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