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Children's webcasts

As part of Boston Children's Hospital's ongoing effort to promote medical education and allow physicians and consumers to see the latest and most innovative medical treatments available to them, we have produced a series of webcasts.

Watch archived webcasts

• Tackling  Concussions Head On
• Aligning the Eyes: Duane Syndrome
• Treating Moyamoya Disease 
• Craniofacial Webcast to treat Encephalocele and an Arachnoid Cyst
• Exstrophy of the Bladder
• Robotically-Assisted Ureteral Reimplantation
• Cardiac Surgery: LV rehabilitation in Borderline LV
• Interventional Catheterization: Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve
• Vascular Anomalies
• MRI & Neurophysiologically Guided Brain Tumor Resection
• Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) Webcast
• Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR)^®
• Minimally-Invasive Robotic Assisted Surgery to Correct Obstructed Kidney
• Children's Advanced Fetal Care Center's Panel Discussion On Fetal Cardiac Interventions

 Tackling Concussions Head On

Featured physicians: Mark R. Proctor, MD, P. Ellen Grant, MD, Karameh Hawash, MD, David Mooney, MD, MPH, Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD, William Sheehan, MD, Alex Taylor, PsyD

Join Mark R. Proctor, MD, director of Boston Children's Hospital's Brain Injury Center, as he leads a dynamic discussion on concussions in pediatric patients. Topics include identifying and treating concussions, potential physical and emotional implications, and on the field management of symptoms. [watch video]

 Aligning the  Eyes

Featured clinicians: David G. Hunter, MD, PhD, Linda R. Dagi, MD, R. Scott Dingeman, MD, Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Danielle M. Ledoux, MD, Jason Mantagos, MD, Carolyn Wu, MD

Watch as the Ophthalmology team at Boston Children's Hospital addresses the issues of Duane syndrome in a pediatric patient. The team discusses treatment options for this condition, including superior rectus transposition surgery and sedated adjustable suture. [watch video]

Treating Moyamoya Disease

Featured clinicians: R. Michael Scott, MD, Edward R. Smith, MD, Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD, Darren B. Orbach, MD, PhD, Michael J. Rivkin, MD, Sulpicio G. Soriano, II, MD, Celiane M. Rey-Casserly, PhD, Michael L. McManus, MD, MPH, Craig D. McClain, MD, MPH, Richard L. Robertson, Jr., MD

Watch a pial synangiosis performed on a pediatric patient with Moyamoya, a rare disease that occurs when the internal carotid arteries at the base of the brain become progressively narrowed and slow blood supply to the brain. The neuroscience team discusses the symptoms and diagnosis of Moyamoya, as well as the management of treatment and care for this disease at Children's. [watch video]

 
Craniofacial Webcast to Treat Encephalocele and an Arachnoid Cyst

Featured clinicians: John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA, Edward Robert Smith, MD, David A. Walton, MD

Watch a craniofacial procedure to treat a rare skeletal deformity, an encephalocele, and a life-threatening arachnoid cyst. Surgeons discuss diagnosis, treatment and long-term outlook, as well as the child's journey from his home in Haiti to Boston Children's Hospital. [watch video]

Robotically-Assisted Ureteral Reimplantation

Featured physicians: Alan B. Retik, MD, FAAP, FACS, Hiep T. Nguyen, MD, and Joseph G Borer, MD.

Watch an archive of urolgists performing an intravesical ureteral reimplantation using robotic-assisted surgery to correct vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in a patient. The team discusses additional procedures that can be carried out using the minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgical techniques such as pyeloplasty, continent urinary diversion and bladder augmentation. [watch video]

Exstrophy of the Bladder

Featured clinicians: Carol E. Barnewolt, MD, Joseph G. Borer, MD, FAAP, Bruce F. Cohen, MD (BIDMC), Rosemary Grant, BSN, RN, Luanne P. Nemes, RN, MS, PNP, Alan B. Retik, MD, FAAP, FACS

Children's Center for Bladder Exstrophy Care and Support team discuss exstrophy of the bladder including diagnosis, surgical treatment (with excerpts of a complete repair procedure), lifelong management and one family's perspective. [watch video]

Cardiac Surgery: LV rehabilitation in Borderline LV

Featured physicians: Emile A. Bacha, MD, Pedro J. del Nido, MD, and Gerald R. Marx, MD.

Cardiac surgeons from Boston Children's Hospital perform an endocardial fibroelastosis resection on borderline LV. [watch video]

Interventional Catheterization: Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve

Featured physicians: Peter Lang, MD, James E. Lock, MD, and Doff McElhinney, MD.

Cardiologists from Boston Children's Hospital implant a Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV), currently in clinical trial at Children's and two other pediatric hospitals in the United States. [watch video]

Specialists review rare vascular anomalies

Featured physicians: John Mulliken, MD, Steven  Fishman, MD, Judah  Folkman, MD, Horacio  Padua, MD, Ahmad  Alomari, MD, Darren  B. Orbach, MD, PhD, James  R. Kasser, MD, Victor  L. Fox, MD, Giannoula Klement, MD, Harry P.W. Kozakewich, MD, Harriet  J. Paltiel, MD, Edward  Smith, MD.

Watch specialists at Boston Children's Hospital as they discuss and diagnose unique cases that have been presented to them by other institutions for their internationally recognized expertise. [watch video]

MRI & Neurophysiologically Guided Brain Tumor Resection

Featured physicians: Joseph  R. Madsen, MD, Mark  R. Proctor, MD, R. Michael Scott, MD, Frank  H. Duffy, MD, Liliana  C. Goumnerova, MD, Mark  Kieran, MD, PhD, Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD, Craig  D. McClain, MD, Caroline  Robson, MB, ChB

Watch neurosurgeons at Boston Children's Hospital perform a craniotomy on a pediatric patient live from the MR/OR, the first and only system of its kind at a pediatric hospital in the country. [watch video]

Serial Transverse Enteroplasty (STEP) Webcast

Featured physicians: Christopher  P. Duggan, MD, MPH, Dario  O. Fauza, MD, Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD, Heung Bae Kim, MD

Watch surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital perform a STEP procedure on a patient during a live webcast. The STEP procedure, which was developed at Children's, lengthens the intestines of children with short bowel syndrome (SBS). [watch video]

Vertical Expandable Prosthetic Titanium Rib (VEPTR")

Featured physicians: John B. Emans, MD, James  R. Kasser, MD, Daniel  J. Hedequist, MD

Watch surgeons implant a VEPTR^® in a pediatric patient during a live webcast. [watch video]

Minimally Invasive Robotic Assisted Surgery
to Correct Obstructed Kidney

Featured physicians: Craig A. Peters, MD, Alan  B. Retik, MD

View live from the operating room a pediatric robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty to remove an obstruction from a patient's kidney and reconnect the kidney's drainage system. [watch video]

Children's Advanced Fetal Care Center's Panel Discussion
On Fetal Cardiac Interventions

Featured physicians: Wayne Tworetzky, MD, Boston Children's Hospital, Louise  E. Wilkins-Haug, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Carol  B. Benson, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital

The panel offer up-to-date information on the latest treatments and interventions for patients with complex fetal anomalies, as well as expert discussion on diagnosis and state-of-the-art technologies from some of the world's leading practitioners in fetal medicine. Boston Children's Hospital, the pioneer in fetal cardiac intervention, has performed more than 50 such procedures to date. [watch video]

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