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It cannot establish superior recovery or identify Bacha as every patient’s operator.","sources":["SP04","SP03","SP16"]}],"sections":[{"id":"benefit-balance","title":"Benefits and limitations","text":"Benefits and limitations Potential advantages The congenital programme covers both straightforward septal defects and wider valve/outflow reconstruction, with pathways extending into adult care. Sources: Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia Trade-offs and limits The robotic report is early, uncontrolled experience and included pleural effusions and pericarditis. It cannot establish superior recovery or identify Bacha as every patient’s operator. Sources: Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia · Emile A. Bacha, MD — surgeon profile · Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program.","links":[{"label":"Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia","url":"https://columbiasurgery.org/pediatric-heart"},{"label":"Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia","url":"https://columbiasurgery.org/pediatric-heart"},{"label":"Emile A. Bacha, MD — surgeon profile","url":"https://columbiasurgery.org/emile-bacha-md"},{"label":"Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program.","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41960109/"}]},{"id":"research","title":"Procedure-specific research","text":"Procedure-specific research An early robotic congenital series Bacha coauthored a programme report of 26 selected children and adults treated during 2023–2025, most with ASD or anomalous pulmonary venous return. It reports early feasibility, with pleural effusions and pericarditis among complications. How to interpret this: Uncontrolled early experience, not proof that robotic repair is better. Coauthorship does not establish who operated on each patient. Sources: Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program.","links":[{"label":"Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program.","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41960109/"}]},{"id":"team","title":"Clinical programme","text":"Clinical programme Columbia / NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital → New York, United States Columbia’s congenital service treats ASD and VSD alongside complex neonatal disease, congenital valve abnormalities and single-ventricle pathways. Childhood care connects to adult congenital assessment within the programme. Sources: Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia · Emile A. Bacha, MD — surgeon profile · Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program. 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Bacha: congenital heart surgery Congenital repair from septal defects to complex neonatal pathways · New York, United States Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of Bookimed Updated 8 October 2026 Sources linked throughout At a glance Emile Bacha’s Columbia practice spans congenital cardiac surgery in children and adults. The programme includes septal-defect repair, valve reconstruction, neonatal operations and staged single-ventricle pathways. Different defects, different repairs Columbia lists ASD/VSD repair, arterial switch, tetralogy-of-Fallot repair and Norwood/Glenn/Fontan pathways. Sources: Pediatric Heart Surgery at Columbia Valve and hybrid expertise Bacha’s institutional profile includes congenital valve reconstruction, minimally invasive surgery and hybrid procedures. Sources: Emile A. Bacha, MD — surgeon profile Early robotic experience A coauthored 2023–2025 programme series reported 26 selected children and adults, mainly with ASD or anomalous pulmonary venous return. Sources: Early outcomes of a formal robotic congenital cardiac surgery program. Portrait source ↗ cardiac surgeon Emile A. Bacha Columbia / NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital → Chair of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief; congenital cardiac surgeon Chair of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief; congenital cardiac surgeon · New York, United States. 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