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.  

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. 

Open Heart Procedures Include:

Phone: 0484 – 2851559, 0484-6681559 

Email: [email protected]