Children's National Newsletter

Summer 2008
Children’s Intestinal Rehabilitation Program

Clarivet Torres, MD
The new multidisciplinary Intestinal Rehabilitation (IR) Program at Children ’s National provides individualized, comprehensive medical, dietary, and surgical treatment for often critically-ill children. The medical treatment focuses on aggressive dietary management with very precise control of metabolic balance and prompt and effective treatment of complications. Aggressive use of specialized enteral feeding programs by the experienced medical team helps to maintain nutrition and hydration, which are important factors in long-term survival. Another important component of the program is on-going parent education and support. [Continue reading about Children’s Instestinal Rehabilitation Program]


Children’s National Heart Institute:
Growing Volumes and Improving Outcomes

Children's National Heart Institute Co-Directors Richard Jonas, MD, and Gerard Martin, MD.
As Children ’s National Heart Institute (CNHI) celebrates nearly three years of success, many exciting changes have been made to the program, allowing Children’s National to make a difference in the lives of patients locally, nationally, and internationally. Last year, Children’s team operated on more infants, children, and adults with congenital heart disease than ever in the history of Children’s National Medical Center. We are able to have impressive survival statistics for our patients because of advances in non-invasive diagnosis, cardiac intensive care, interventional cardiac catheterization, and cardiac surgery. [Continue reading about Children’s National Heart Institute]
- Children’s Intestinal Rehabiliation Program

- Children’s National Heart Institute: Growing Volumes and Improving Outcomes
- Children’s Neuropsychologist Leads Research and Development of Youth Sports Concussion Programs

- Results of New Clinical Trial Demonstrate How Personalized Medicine May Drastically Change the Treatment of Genetic Disorders

- Recently Published Journals and Abstracts
- New Web Site URL

- Children’s Launches Neurofibromatosis Institute

- Children’s Brain Tumor Institute

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