Norton Children’s Heart Institute, affiliated with the University of Louisville, is a pioneer in complex pediatric cardiothoracic surgery.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons ranked Norton Children’s Heart Institute among the best in Ohio, Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The prestigious professional organization studied years of data covering our results and our ability to handle a range of pediatric heart conditions, including the most severe.

The American Board of Thoracic Surgery has certified the cardiothoracic surgeons at Norton Children’s Hospital with subspecialty certification in congenital heart surgery.

The experienced specialists at Norton Children’s Heart Institute have the skill and state-of-the-art equipment to provide best-in-class cardiothoracic surgical care. Your physician will work as a team with other specialists in cardiology, critical care, anesthesiology and other areas to prepare a customized treatment plan for your child.

Surgical procedures performed by our specialists include:

• Ablation
• Anomalous left coronary artery reimplantation
• Aortic valve repair
• Arterial switch operation
• Atrioventricular septal defect repair
• Atrial septal defect closure
• Balloon angioplasty
• Balloon valvuloplasty
• Biventricular repair
• Blalock-Taussig shunt
• Cardiac catheterization diagnostic procedures
• Cardiac resynchronization therapy
• Coaractation of the aorta repair
• Complex ablations
• Complex anatomical lead placement
• Complex single ventricle repairs
• Damus-Kaye-Stansel Procedure
• Defibrillator placement
• Diagnostic and interventional catheterization
• Double inlet left ventricle repair
• Ebstein’s anomaly repair
• Endovascular stent implantation
• Fontan procedure
• Glenn procedure
• Hybrid heart procedures
• Interrupted aortic arch repair
• Interventional cardiac catheterization
• Loop recorder implantation
• Marfan’s syndrome repair
• Melody valve implantation
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Mitral valve stenosis or prolapse repair
• Norwood procedure
• Open heart surgery
• Pacemaker
• Partial anomalous pulmonary venous repair
• Patent ductus arteriosus closure
• Pulmonary atresia repair
• Pulmonary stenosis repair
• Ross procedure
• Sano shunt
• Sapien valve implantation
• Septal myectomy
• Tetralogy of Fallot repair
• Total anomalous pulmonary venour repair
• Transpostion of the great arteries, D-type, repair
• Tricuspid atresia repair
• Truncus arteriosus repair
• Vascular ring repair
• Ventricular assist device implantation
• Ventricular septal defect closure

Why Norton Children’s Heart Institute?

Norton Children’s Heart Institute, affiliated with the University of Louisville, is a comprehensive pediatric heart surgery, heart failure and heart transplant program serving Kentucky, Southern Indiana and beyond.

The goal of the full-service Norton Children’s Heart Institute is to provide care for the child and the whole family. Our specialists are prepared to repair even the most complex congenital and acquired heart conditions.

Our heart team includes:

• Pediatric cardiothoracic surgeons
• Pediatric transplant surgeons
• Pediatric cardiologists
  • Fetal cardiologists
  • Adult congenital heart cardiologists
  • Heart failure/heart transplant cardiologists
  • Pediatric electrophysiologists
  • Pediatric cardiac catheterization cardiologists
• Pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiologists
• Pediatric intensive care physicians
• Cardiac critical care nurses
• Critical care pharmacists
• Family support team
• Child life specialists
• Rehabilitation specialists
• Social workers