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

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons rated 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 skills and state-of-the-art equipment to provide top-notch 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
• Coarctation of the aorta repair
• Complex ablations
• Complex anatomical lead placement
• Complex single ventricle repairs
• Damus-Kaye-Stansel procedure
• Defibrillator placement
• Double inlet left ventricle repair
• Ebstein anomaly repair
• Endovascular stent implantation
• Fontan procedure
• Glenn procedure
• Hybrid heart procedures
• Interrupted aortic arch repair
• Interventional cardiac catheterization
• Loop recorder implantation
• Marfan 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 venous repair
• Transposition 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 Choose Norton Children’s Heart Institute

No other congenital heart surgery program in Kentucky, Ohio or Southern Indiana is rated higher by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons than the Norton Children’s Heart Institute Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Program.

• Norton Children’s Hospital is a pioneer in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, performing Kentucky’s first pediatric heart transplant in 1986 and becoming the second site in the United States to perform an infant heart transplant.
• Our board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric cardiovascular surgeons are leaders in the field as clinicians and researchers.
• More than 5,000 children a year visit Norton Children’s Heart Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, for advanced heart care.
• Norton Children’s Heart Institute successfully performs more than 17,500 procedures a year.
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons rated Norton Children’s Heart Institute among the best in the region after studying years of our patients’ outcomes and our ability to treat a range of pediatric heart conditions, including the most severe.
• Norton Children’s Heart Institute has satellite outpatient offices in Ashland, Bowling Green, Campbellsville, Elizabethtown, Frankfort, London, Madisonville, Murray, Owensboro, Paducah and Shepherdsville in Kentucky; as well as Corydon, Jasper, Madison and Scottsburg in Indiana; 28 tele-echocardiography locations in Kentucky and Southern Indiana; and six fetal echocardiography locations across Kentucky.
• The American Board of Thoracic Surgery has awarded the cardiothoracic surgeons at Norton Children’s Hospital with subspecialty certification in congenital heart surgery.
• The Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is the largest dedicated CICU in Kentucky, equipped with 17 private rooms and the newest technology available for heart care.
• Our multidisciplinary approach to pediatric heart surgery brings together our specialists in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, anesthesiology, cardiac critical care and other areas to create a complete care plan tailored for your child.