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At Children's Hospital Colorado, we're committed to improving the quality of life for children with cardiology conditions. Get the latest in pediatric cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery to better your practice and learn about innovation within our Heart Institute programs.

Research articles and summaries

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Research Article
Speeding Up Cardiac Disease Research with Big Data

Researchers at Children's Hospital Colorado's Pediatric Heart Institute are utilizing big data to speed up discovery. By adopting business world techniques, the researchers apply a data-driven, inductive approach, using blood tests to measure biomarkers and machine learning to sort the data, leading to the development of new research questions and speeding up the discovery process.

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Research Summary
Detection of Coarctation of the Aorta Using Speckle-Tracking Imaging
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Research Summary
Outcome of Antibody-Mediated Fetal Heart Disease with Standardized Anti-Inflammatory Transplacental Treatment
Clinical Trial
Regenerative Therapy for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Colorado are investigating the safety and feasibility of providing regenerative therapy for a rare congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).

Diagnosis
Infants diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in utero
Age
Stem cell collection at birth; Glenn procedure at 3-6 months old
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Professional resources

Charting Pediatrics is a weekly podcast for pediatric healthcare providers. In this series, specialists from Children's Hospital Colorado examine the latest treatments for the most common complaints in pediatric medicine. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, iTunes and Google Play.

Critical Congenital Heart Disease

In this episode we discuss how to respond to abnormal results of the newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) screening with Chris Rausch, MD, Director of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Laboratory at Children's Colorado.

Heart Arrhythmia Diagnosis

In this episode, Johannes von Alvensleben, MD, pediatric cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Children's Colorado, discusses some of the most common heart arrhythmias in the primary care setting, including identifiable characteristics and treatments.

Care of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Patients in 2019

More than 60% of ACHD patients are not in the care of an expert, leading to increased mortality and preventable morbidity. Joseph Kay, MD, reviews ACHD history, standards of care, challenges and advanced treatment options.

Our experts have created a mental health provider video series to share their experience, knowledge and research with providers across the country and beyond. They discuss specific conditions, new research findings, diagnostic and treatment techniques and more.

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) Treatment and Research

James Jaggers, MD, Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Children’s Colorado and pediatric cardiac surgeon, discusses HLHS treatment options, survival rates at Children’s Colorado and multidisciplinary follow-up care.

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