Heart surgery in new born and children is performed to repair congenital heart defects or the heart defects a child gets after birth. Congenital heart defect (CHD) is a defect in the structure of the heart that is present since birth. Both the congenital heart defects and the heart diseases a child gets after birth require surgery to be treated.
Heart defects can be of many kinds, minor, rare and more serious or the complex ones. Defects can be present inside the heart or can occur in the large blood vessels outside the heart. While some heart defects require surgery when the baby is born, other minor ones can wait until the child reaches a certain age.
Neonatal and pediatric heart surgery diagnoses and enables surgical procedures to treat heart defects in infants, children and young adults.