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Pediatric cardiology, reviewed with clinical precision.
Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today follows pediatric cardiovascular care through papers, lectures, and interviews with clinicians in the field. Its center of gravity is congenital heart disease, with careful attention to evidence, surgical recovery, imaging, nursing, and long-term outcomes.
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Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today is a long-running clinical review show centered on pediatric and congenital cardiovascular care. Dr. Robert Pass anchors the program with a steady sequence of literature review, expert conversation, and conference lecture audio. The format is disciplined. Episodes often begin with a clearly identified study, move through authorship and institutional context, then settle into the data that matter for practice. Recent subjects include aspirin responsiveness in pediatric cardiac surgery patients, sinus node dysfunction after congenital heart surgery, congenital CCT imaging programs, and tricuspid regurgitation in hypoplastic left heart syndrome. These are not treated as headlines. They are handled as clinical problems with measurements, mechanisms, limitations, and consequences. The show is especially attentive to the gap between statistical findings and care decisions. A paper may show a meaningful rate of aspirin non-responsiveness, but the episode still asks which test is useful, when testing should happen, and whether outcomes prove the value of acting on the result. That habit gives the show its identity. It is careful without being inert. It is specialized without becoming purely academic. Episodes also widen beyond journal review, drawing on CHOP meeting material, nursing history, critical congenital cardiac care, and conversations with established figures in pediatric cardiology. The guest roster reflects the field’s breadth: surgeons, imaging physicians, nursing leaders, researchers, and interventional cardiology voices all appear in the recent run. The show frequently returns to postoperative management, single ventricle physiology, cardiac imaging, congenital heart disease research, and the practical burden of complications after surgery. It also has an unusual closing signature, often ending with opera or classical vocal excerpts after the medical discussion. That closing touch gives the program a personal rhythm, but the core remains clinical. Pediheart works best for listeners who already speak the language of pediatric cardiology or are learning to. It rewards attention to details such as cohort design, pacemaker rates, adverse cardiac events, thrombosis risk, and long-term follow-up. The editorial stance is sober and curious. It keeps asking what the evidence can support now, and what still needs better data before practice should change.
Made for: Built for pediatric cardiologists, congenital heart clinicians, cardiac surgeons, intensivists, nurses, fellows, and medically fluent listeners following pediatric cardiovascular care. It is most useful for people who want study details and practice implications, not simplified health advice.
What sets it apart: The show pairs dense paper review with direct author or expert follow-up, keeping the listener close to both the evidence and the clinical uncertainty. Its range across surgery, imaging, electrophysiology, nursing, research networks, and interventional cardiology gives it unusual depth within a narrow specialty.
A review of the latest literature and thought leaders in pediatric cardiovascular care.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pediheart turns pediatric cardiac studies into careful conversations about methods, clinical decisions and the evidence still missing.
Robert Pass builds episodes around clinical questions, moving from close readings of studies to interviews with their authors. Methods, outcome measures, limitations and unanswered questions remain visible alongside the practical stakes for children with congenital heart disease.
Dr. Robert Pass asks what the aspirin test changes, then sends you out with opera.
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A practical look at aspirin non-response after pediatric cardiac surgery.
The episode offers a focused look at congenital heart surgery through a prospective cohort study on platelet responsiveness to aspirin in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery. Dr.
A practical look at how often sinus node dysfunction follows congenital heart surgery, and what that may mean for pacing decisions.
Dr. Robert Pass guides a practical hour on sinus node dysfunction after congenital heart surgery, with Omar Meziab and Audrey Dion's Boston Children's Hospital paper as the anchor.
A careful review of tricuspid regurgitation in single-ventricle care, with outcomes still an open question.
PD Heart takes up tricuspid regurgitation in single-ventricle care and keeps the focus on a practical question: whether surgical valve intervention can truly improve outcomes. It frames the work by J.F.
A focused review of neurocognitive findings and research priorities in congenital heart disease care.
Dr. Gail Pearson's William J. Rashkin Memorial Lecture brings congenital heart disease research into sharp focus at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Cardiology 2026 course.
A candid look at how CICU care has grown more complex and more crowded.
Pediheart's 377th episode follows a lecture by Dr. David Winlaw, introduced by Dr. Jonathan Chen, and treats congenital heart surgery and critical cardiology as a clear view into the modern CICU.
A careful look at pacing for small children, with early follow-up and real constraints kept visible.
Pedihart follows emerging pacemaker technology for small children with a steady emphasis on what comes after implant, not on novelty alone. The early results from the first five patients, now two or three years out, are mostly reassuring, and the multicenter study presented at…
Brain science before it becomes a headline.
This episode reviews a paper on complications from the Alterra Prestent in transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement, followed by an interview with the first author.
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["A PHIS review of more than 1,100 neonates with third-degree heart block found 36 percent in-hospital mortality when congenital heart surgery and pacemaker insertion occurred together.", "Dr.
Pediheart #379 centers on a Queensland Children’s Hospital prospective cohort study of 133 pediatric cardiac surgery patients on aspirin after surgery.
Pediheart #378 examines a Boston Children's Hospital study of sinus node dysfunction after congenital heart surgery, using data from 4,571 surgeries in 3,749 patients between January 2013 and December 2017.
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This episode reviews a paper on required resources for a comprehensive congenital CCT program and interviews its first author.
A podcast episode featuring a presentation by nursing leader Gwen Foss on lessons learned from 50 years of congenital heart nursing.
Pediatric Cardiology Today #374 reviews SVR trial data on tricuspid regurgitation, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and transplant-free survival after Norwood, stage 2, and Fontan.
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This episode features a panel discussion from the Boston Children's Cardiology 75th Alumni Reunion about the Alexander Nadas years.