Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery at Children's National - Children's National

Home to the area's largest pediatric cardiology program and the DMV's only pediatric-specific advanced lung and lung transplant program. First in the nation to publish long-term cardiac surgery outcomes, helping families know what to expect 20+ years after a child's surgery. Children's National has expertise in caring for congenital heart disease throughout the lifespan, from prenatal diagnosis through adulthood. Our Heart Research Institute studies how individual hearts respond to surgery, medications and cardiopulmonary bypass, how plastics and blood banking practices affect heart function and recovery from surgery, and how better, child-focused technology like less-invasive pacemakers and ventricular assist devices, more precise imaging and artificial intelligence can transform the care of children with heart conditions.