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Heart Institute Research and Innovation

Raising the bar. Then raising it again. And again.

At Arkansas Children’s Heart Institute, we benefit from having access to the talent, innovations and best practices of Arkansas Children’s. By combining their resources with ours, we constantly raise the bar in all areas of care.

3D Heart Model Printing Center

Our 3D Heart Model Printing Center has fundamentally changed the way we work. It houses several 3D printers and design tools that generate colorful and tangible replicas of our patients’ hearts that surgeons can hold in their hands. By visualizing the heart defect before surgery begins, patients often spend less time in the OR and less time recovering from major heart surgery.

Innovative treatments

  • The Fontan Procedure

    The Fontan procedure is an open-heart surgery generally performed on babies to treat single ventricle physiology patients.

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Featured programs

Tissue Typing Laboratory

The HLA Tissue Typing Laboratory supports Arkansas’ clinical solid organ transplantation programs. These services include identifying specific tissue antigens, including HLA-A, B, C, DR, DQ, lymphocytotoxicity cross matches and determining the presence and specificity of circulating anti-HLA antibodies.

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Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit

The Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) was one of the first dedicated ICUs in the region to provide care to neonates, children and adolescents with congenital or acquired heart disease. Our 30-bed CVICU offers specialized inpatient care to more than 600 patients annually.

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