Every year in the U.S., approximately 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart defects. Many of these babies will require a surgical correction of their heart defects, often during infancy or early childhood.
UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Timothy Pirolli specializes in surgically treating all deformities of the heart and/or cardiac blood vessels in both children and adults. The spectrum of these conditions include aortic and mitral valve disease, atrial and ventricular septal defects, patent ductus arteriosus, patent foramen ovale, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, transposition of the great arteries, coarctation of the aorta, and tetralogy of Fallot. Dr. Pirolli uses the most sophisticated techniques and technologies to perform a number of procedures – including heart transplantation, slide tracheoplasty for congenital tracheal stenosis, and other complex repairs and replacements. He credits his success as a congenital heart surgeon to having been trained under some of the top congenital heart surgeons in the world, including Dr. Thomas Spray at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Dr. Frank Hanley at Stanford University/Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, as well as working with his internationally known surgical colleagues at UTSW, Dr. Joseph Forbess and Dr. Kristine Guleserian. Although many of Dr. Pirolli’s patients are infants, children, and adolescents (newborns to 18 years old), he treats a number of adults, as well – in many cases to revise congenital heart procedures performed years ago. |