Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to determine if vasodilators for the lungs can decrease liver stiffness, shown by Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE).  The study also aims to identify any clinical, laboratory, echocardiographic, imaging, and hemodynamic parameters that connect with improved outcomes of cardiac and liver status after starting the pulmonary vasodilators.

The purpose of this initiative is to improve care and outcomes for infants with HLHS by expanding the NPC-QIC national registry to gather clinical care process, outcome, and developmental data on infants with HLHS between diagnosis and 12 months of age, by improving the use of standards into everyday practice across pediatric cardiology centers, and by engaging parents as partners in the process.

The purpose of this study is to assess operative and postoperative outcomes after aortic valve surgery, evaluate for changes in ascending aorta diameter by comparing pre-operative CT imaging to measurements on follow-up imaging, and examine late outcomes and functional status during the follow-up period with specific focus on mortality, need for re-operation and incidence of aortic dissection.

The purpose of this study is to assess neurodevelopmental and psychosocial outcomes (i.e., executive function, social cognition, psychosocial adjustment, adaptive skills) in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) who underwent right-ventricle-directed delivery of autologous umbilical cord derived mononuclear cells during staged cardiac surgical palliation, and to compare their outcomes to a matched sample of children with HLHS who did not receive autologous umbilical cord derived mononuclear cells during surgery.

This study aims to evaluate the safety of intramyocardial delivery of autologous umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cells during Fontan surgical palliation and measure surrogate markers of myocardial protection within a non-randomized study design to obtain prospective data from treatment and control populations.