Nataly Paramo, center-right, the first pediatric patient to receive a heart transplant at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Oak Lawn, holds hands with her mother, Juana Ortiz, left, as they listen ...

A pediatric heart transplant had never been carried out on Long Island. Until last Friday. Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Hospital successfully completed the first procedure on the island ...

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) performed its first pediatric heart transplant on March 28, just weeks after receiving approval from the state. The ...

Justin Cauthen, the first pediatric patient to undergo a heart transplant at a Long Island hospital, opened his eyes after seven hours in surgery and could finally breathe easy. "When I woke up ...

On Tuesday, Morbitzer will release her children’s book “Sarah Scarbuck’s Heart Zipper: A Story of a Heart Surgery Scar” through Mascot Books.

History made with two pediatric heart transplants happening simultaneously. "It was electric. The, the people, the teams down called in the middle of the night, not on call.

Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up ...

Advanced second- or third-degree AV block, with symptomatic bradycardia, ventricular dysfunction or low cardiac output. Sinus node dysfunction with symptoms during age-inappropriate bradycardia ...