The Heart Institute: Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Giving Young Hearts Another Chance to Beat

The Heart Institute – a world leader in pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery and the care of children with congenital heart disorders – serves as a beacon to families confronting the reality of a child or newborn with a heart defect.

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The Nicklaus Children's Heart Institute offers comprehensive care for children with heart conditions, including some of the most complex congenital heart defects. Its multidisciplinary team provides advanced diagnostic, interventional, surgical, and critical care, with expertise extending to adults living with congenital heart disease.

The Institute continues to advance less-invasive approaches that can reduce or, in some cases, eliminate the need for open-heart surgery. Its specialists use advanced imaging, catheter-based technologies, innovative surgical techniques, and individualized treatment planning to provide care tailored to each patient.

Highlights of the Heart Institute:

The Heart Institute has a long history of advancing pediatric cardiovascular care.
Recent milestones include:

Cardiovascular Surgery

First in Florida to perform a partial heart transplant and living valve implantation
First in Florida and among few worldwide to offer pediatric robotic open-heart surgery
Among few U.S. centers offering staged septation procedure and ventricular rehabilitation procedure
Only pediatric hospital in Florida offering mini-invasive axillary open-heart surgery
Among few centers worldwide offering Nikaidoh procedure, en-bloc rotation and double switch operations
Among few U.S. centers offering aortic and pulmonary Ozaki procedure and Ross operation in children and adults

Interventional Cardiology

A Team Approach to Care Makes a Difference

Children with heart conditions benefit from a multidisciplinary team that works together throughout diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and long-term follow-up. The team includes pediatric cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, cardiac intensivists, anesthesiologists, imaging specialists, electrophysiologists, advanced practice providers, and specialized nurses.

Comprehensive Programs and Services

Treatments and Procedures

Multimodality Fusion Imaging
Pulmonary Flow Restrictors (PFRs)
Transcatheter Sinus Venosus ASD Closure

Treatments and Procedures

Conditions We Treat

Recognition and Outcomes Tell the Story

Our pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery services are ranked among the nation's best for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery by U.S.News & World Report.

A Distinguished History of Saving Little Hearts

Nicklaus Children’s has been advancing pediatric heart care for more than six decades. In 1960, the hospital became the first in Florida to perform pediatric open-heart surgery and has continued to introduce new programs, technologies, and procedures for children with heart disease.

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In 1960, we became the first facility in Florida to perform pediatric open-heart surgery

100%

of public schools in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties are trained by Nicklaus Children’s clinicians to respond to sudden cardiac arrest

Stories to Inspire

The cardiovascular surgery team at the Nicklaus Children's Hospital Heart Institute successfully performed the first partial heart transplant in the state of Florida in March of 2026 on Greyson, an 11-year-old patient born with a Ventricular Septal Defect, a congenital heart disorder. In this major surgical innovation, the living valve of a donor's heart is implanted into a patient, which allows the living valve to grow with the child.