Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Paediatric and congenital heart surgery at Amrita is one of the well-known centers of excellence in the country.  

• More than ten thousand congenital heart surgeries successfully performed  
• Every day an average of three to four operations are performed for children with congenital heart disease every day  
• The overall survival rate matching the best in the world.  

Open Heart Procedures Include:

• Closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects 
• Repair of tetralogy of Fallot 
• Repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection 
• Arterial switch operation 
• Senning operation 
• Fontan procedure (including the extra-cardiac Fontan operation) 
• Glenn procedure, repair of common AV canal defects 
• Rastelli operation 
• Ross operation 
• Norwood operation 
• conduit replacements 
• single stage unifocalisation 
• ALCAPA repairs and double switch procedures 

Neonatal Cardiac Surgery 

The department has successfully performed more than four hundred and fifty arterial switch operations and eight hundred TAPVC repairs in neonates: 

• Arterial switches: done in cases of transposition of great arteries - where the aorta originates from the wrong ventricle and the baby is blue. 
• Total anomalous pulmonary venous return repair: done in cases where the pulmonary veins open into the wrong side of the heart and the baby is blue. 
• Norwood operation: done for hypoplastic left heart syndrome where the whole left side of the heart is underdeveloped. 
• Systemic pulmonary shunts. 
• One stage repair of arch anomalies with correction of intra-cardiac defects. 

Infant Cardiac Surgery 

• Closure of simpler intra cardiac defects. 
• Total corrections for tetralogy, double outlet right ventricle. 
• Repair of endocardial cushion defects. 
• Senning operation. 
• Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) repairs. 
• Double switch procedures. 

Complex Valve Repairs 

• Correction of Ebstein's anomaly. 
• Congenital mitral stenosis and mitral regurgitation. 
• Aortic and mitral valve repairs.  

Operation for Single Ventricle Physiology 

The centre performs staged repairs for single ventricle physiology. 

• PA banding. 
• Systemic-pulmonary shunts. 
• Cavopulmonary shunts. 
• Fontan operation. 

Congenital Defects in Older Children and Adolescents 

• The whole spectrum of congenital heart surgery ranging from total corrections to conduit reconstructions is performed. 
• Redo operations for congenital heart defects. 
• Surgeries like replacement of conduits, surgery for endocarditis, staged Fontan surgeries are routinely performed. 

Cosmetic Congenital Heart Surgery 

• Specializes in surgery for congenital heart defects using cosmetically appealing incisions. 
• Over 1500 open-heart procedures performed using limited posterior thoracotomy incisions. 
• Approximately 300 infants and children underwent open-heart procedures through ministernotomy (key-hole) approach. 
• Procedures performed include repairs for tetralogy, closure of septal defects, correction of anomalous venous connections, and endocardial cushion defect corrections. 

Phone: 0484 – 2851559, 0484-6681559 

Email: cvts@aims.amrita.edu