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Actual information regarding COVID-19 and pediatric cardiac patients
According to the data of the DGPI (German Society of Pediatric Cardiology www.dgpi.de ) there are now appr. 82.000 children and adolescents tested positive for COVID-19. 65 of these had some form of congenital heart disease: e.g. 6 children after cardiac...
Cardiac surgery before birth: Marlenes difficult start into a normal life
Cardiac surgery before birth: Marlenes difficult start into a normal life In the past 8 years doctors from the Children’s Heart Center Linz at Kepler University Hospital saved the life of 12 unborn children with heart defects by performing very complex and difficult...
25-year anniversary of the Children’s Heart Center Linz
Top-medical care for the youngest cardiac patients There are about 700 newborns with congenital heart disease born in Austria per year. Every third of them would die without a specialized care and immediate cardiac surgery. The Children’s Heart Center Linz at Kepler...
Award of the Haackert Goldmedal
For outstanding achievements in the field of prenatal medicine. Awarded at the Congress of the German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology December 2018