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Children’s Heart Care

Infographic for Children’s Heart Care at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. It states that cardiovascular birth defects in Tennessee have increased nearly 40% in recent years and highlights the hospital’s pediatric heart transplant and cardiac surgery services, with annual figures for children served, hospitalizations, cardiac surgery patients, heart transplants, catheterization and electrophysiology studies, and echocardiograms.
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