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Congenital heart surgery clinics and specialist centres

3 clinics and specialist centres with linked profiles, clinical focus and attributable evidence.

Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of BookimedUpdated 8 October 2026Sources linked throughout

At a glance

Congenital heart surgery clinics and specialist centres differ in the anatomy they treat, techniques they offer and evidence they publish. Congenital heart conditions need a team matched to the defect and the patient’s age. Some openings or narrowed valves can be treated by catheter; others require reconstruction or ongoing monitoring.

3 named clinics and specialist centres

Mayo Clinic Rochester, Boston Children’s Hospital, Columbia / NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.

Sources: Mayo · 67 patients with apical aneurysm repair · Biventricular repair linked to better outcomes in superior-inferior ventricles treatment · Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia

Adults still need congenital expertise

Childhood repair does not eliminate later valve, rhythm or reoperation needs.

Sources: ACC/AHA adult congenital guidance (2025)

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Boston Children’s, Columbia and Mayo profiles describe different paediatric and adult congenital expertise.

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Boston Children’s heart-surgery team with an electrophysiologist during surgery
Conduction mapping during biventricular repair at Boston Children’s: the source identifies Elizabeth DeWitt, Eric Feins and Sitaram Emani. Photo courtesy of Benjamin Eckstein/Beryllium Pictures; published January 2025. · Photo source

United States · Boston

Boston Children’s Hospital

Congenital heart surgery clinical focus

Boston Children’s Complex Biventricular Repair Program uses detailed imaging and tailored outflow/valve reconstruction for difficult congenital anatomy.

    Procedures and specialists
    complex biventricular reconstructioncongenital valve repaircomplex VSD-associated outflow reconstruction
    Sitaram Emani →Read the clinic profile ↗

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    Sources: Biventricular repair linked to better outcomes in superior-inferior ventricles treatment · Intraoperative Conduction Mapping to Reduce Postoperative Atrioventricular Block in Complex Congenital Heart Disease. · The Yasui operation: A single institutional experience over 30 years.

    Exterior of NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
    NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, the Columbia paediatric programme’s hospital site. · Photo source

    United States · New York

    Columbia / NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

    Congenital heart surgery clinical focus

    Columbia’s congenital service spans ASD/VSD closure, complex neonatal and congenital-valve repair, and staged single-ventricle pathways.

      Procedures and specialists
      ASD repairVSD repaircomplex neonatal repaircongenital valve surgerystaged single-ventricle surgerypediatric heart transplantation
      Emile A. Bacha →Read the clinic profile ↗

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      Sources: Emile A. Bacha, MD — surgeon profile · Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia

      Aerial photograph of Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus in Rochester
      Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota. · Photo source

      United States · Rochester, Minnesota

      Mayo Clinic Rochester

      Congenital heart surgery clinical focus

      Mayo’s Dearani practice includes paediatric and adult congenital surgery, congenital valve repair and Ebstein anomaly.

        Procedures and specialists
        septal myectomy
        Joseph A. Dearani →Read the clinic profile ↗

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        Sources: Mayo Clinic · Joseph Dearani

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        How these clinics and specialist centres were selected

        This list contains 3 clinics and specialist centres with a documented congenital heart surgery focus in our source-linked directory. It is an editorial shortlist, not a census or an outcome ranking.

        Institutional expertise and published study results are identified separately. An individual doctor may participate in several treatment pathways; a study of one procedure does not establish outcomes for another.

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