Collaboration improves the outcome of pediatric heart surgery

3D Systems (NY, USA) has formed a partnership with OpHeart (TX, USA), a non-profit organization that aims to ensure children with life threatening heart defects receive the best medical treatment. The collaboration aims to provide surgeons with a detailed, personalized anatomical model for each patient to act as a surgical guide. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (IL, USA) 1% of all children are born with a congenital heart defect (CHD). CHDs are the most common birth defect with thousands of people in the US requiring surgical intervention in order to survive each year. 3D Systems (NY, USA) and...