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Since 1956, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon
Children’s Hospital has offered the
highest level of care, as the country’s
only free-standing, non-profit Catholic
1465 S. Grand Boulevard | St. Louis, MO 63104
pediatric hospital.
Located in St. Louis, MO, SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon, a member of
SSM Health, one of the largest
Catholic health care systems in
the country, is a pediatric medical
destination. Every year, the hospital
provides hope to tens of thousands
of children with complex medical
conditions throughout Missouri,
SLUCare Division of Pediatric Cardiology and
Cardiothoracic Surgery Faculty
Illinois and beyond.
Kenneth Schowengerdt, MD, FAAP, FACC
Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Wieck-Sullivan Professor of Pediatrics
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon is a
195-bed teaching hospital affiliated
with Saint Louis University School of
Medicine. In every way, SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon lives out the
SSM Health Mission, “Through our
exceptional health care services, we
reveal the healing presence of God.”
Saadeh AlJureidini, MD
Jason
Garnreiter, MD
Susan
Haynes, MD
Wilson
King, MD
Babak
Rahimi, MD
Chetana
Reddy, MD
Angela
Sharkey, MD
Jamie
Sutherell, MD
Andrew Fiore, MD
Cardiothoracic
Surgeon
Renuka
Peterson, MD
Division of
Pediatric Cardiology
and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Charles
Huddleston, MD
Cardiothoracic
Surgeon
For more information, visit cardinalglennon.com
or to make a referral, call 314-577-5674.
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According to the U.S. News & World Report listing
of Best Children’s Hospitals, SLUCare pediatric
cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery teams rank
among the best in the country. The reason is
clear — our patient survival rates are excellent
and we have specialists with long-standing
expertise. We are recognized for:
>> C
ardiac patient survival rates consistently
at or above 97%.
>> H
aving the region’s only pediatric hybrid cardiac
catheterization suite, where diagnostic tests,
interventional procedures and open-heart
surgeries are performed in one suite.
>> P
ioneering the use of rotational angiography
to generate pediatric heart models at
unprecedented resolution.
>> B
eing at the forefront of 3D printing and heart
modeling for use in complex congenital heart
surgeries, interventional cardiology procedures
and electrophysiology procedures.
>> B
eing the first in Missouri to implant an
entirely subcutaneous implantable cardioverter
defibrillator (ICD) system.
>> R
outinely performing catheter ablation
procedures without the use of fluoroscopy,
which means no radiation exposure to children.
SLUCare Division of Pediatric
Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Faculty Publications (selected)
2016 Diagnostic Testing
and Cardiac Imaging
We have a dedicated team of specialists skilled at
implanting state-of-the-art ventricular assist devices
(VADs), including the Berlin Heart EXCOR VAD, the
first pediatric VAD approved by the FDA in 2011 for
infants and children with severe heart failure. The
SLUCare Cardiothoracic Surgeons at SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon have completed more than
60 heart transplants since the start of the heart
transplant program and is a member of the Pediatric
Heart Transplant Study.
Heart transplantation in children with intellectual
disability: An analysis of the UNOS database.
Goel AN, Iyengar A, Schowengerdt K, Fiore AC,
Huddleston CB. Pediatric Transplant. 2016 Dec 9.
doi: 10.1111/petr.12858. [Epub ahead of print]
13,546
Total
Garnreiter JM, Pilcher TA, Etheridge SP, Saarel
EV. Inappropriate ICD Shocks in Pediatrics and
Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Risk Factors and
Programming Strategies. Heart Rhythm, 2015 May;
12(5):937-42 (Epub 2015 Jan 22).
For the diagnosis and management of complex
heart arrhythmias or cardiac channelopathy disorders,
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon has a full complement
of electrophysiology services.
Our Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center offers
comprehensive heart care for infants and children
with congenital heart defects and accounts for
thousands of visits and procedures annually. In
late 2016, the center was expanded and renovated
in order to accommodate the growing demand
of our pediatric cardiology program. Fetal
echocardiograms and cardiac MRI also are available.
The technology of our Cardiac MRI enables
physicians to create 3D images of the heart and
measure how well the heart is pumping.
6,472
Echocardiograms
Bacterial Pancarditis with Myocardial Abscess:
Successful Surgical Intervention in a 14-month-old
boy. Yoon JK, Rahimi MB, Fiore A, Schowengerdt K,
Jureidini SB. Tex Heart Inst J. 2015 Feb 1;42(1):55-7.
432
Fetal echocardiograms
6,220
Electrocardiograms
373
Holter monitors
Stress tests
49
MRI’s
80
CT’s
60
2016 Cardiac
Catheterizations
350
59
300
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
provides cardiology services at:
Electrophysiology cases
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital | Jefferson City, MO
Anderson Hospital | Maryville, IL
150
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital | Lake Saint Louis, MO
SSH Health Medical Group | Shiloh, IL
100
SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital | Mt. Vernon, IL
140
Diagnostic cardiac
catheterizations
126
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2012 – 2016 Survival Rates at Discharge (all operations)
325 Total
97%
100%
99%
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon
100%
99%
96.9%
98%
98%
100%
97%
The Society of Thoracic
Surgeons (STS)
national averages
Hypoalbuminemia and Poor Growth Predict Worse
Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients.
Castleberry C, White-Williams C, Naftel D, Tresler MA,
Pruitt E, Miyamoto S, Murphy D, Spicer R, Bannister L,
Schowengerdt K, Gilmore L, Kaufman B, Zangwill S.
Pediatric Transplantation 2014 May; 18(3):280-287
(Epub 2014 Mar 20).
Interventional cardiac
catheterizations
50
Length of Stay (Days)
22
20
16.1
10
7.8
5
15.9
13.1
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SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon
Outpatient Clinic Visits
emergency room
locations
in Missouri and Illinois
1st
to establish an ED-to-ED
and NICU-to-NICU telemedicine
program in the St. Louis region
More than 200 specialists
in more than 60 medical and surgical specialties
158,038
Outpatient Visits
62,896
Emergency Visits
The Society of Thoracic
Surgeons (STS)
Outpatient Surgeries
2,091
Inpatient Surgeries
15
0
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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
(STS) national averages
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SD
SSM Health
Cardinal Glennon
10.7 10
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100%
99%
100%
97%
7pediatric
5,975
29.5
100%
99%
in both Missouri and Illinois
Admissions
41.8
40
30
Pediatric Trauma Center
7,585
50
100%
97%
85%
83%
Designated a Level I
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease
and other malignancies after pediatric cardiac
transplantation: an evolving landscape. Haynes SE,
Saini S, Schowengerdt KO. Curr Opin Organ
Transplant 2015 Oct; 20(5):562-9.
250
200
Margossian R, Chen S, Sleeper LA, Tani LY, Shirali
G, Golding F, Selamet Tierney ES, Altmann K,
Campbell MJ, Szwast A, Sharkey A, Radojewski E,
Colan SD, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators.
The Reproducibility and Absolute Values of
Echocardiographic Measurements of Left Ventricular
Size and Function in Children Are Algorithm
Dependent. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2015 May; 28(5):
549-558 (Epub 2015 Feb 27).
By the Numbers
4,846
4,772
5,311
5,182
2013
2014
2015
2016