Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music and Lurie Children's Hospital are collaborating on a research program to ...

Discover the inspiring story of the Fontan Choir, a choir of children with congenital heart conditions, who are improving their lung function through singing.

There were 15 patients with CHD (14 had prior heart surgery); four children had normal ... complicated surgical procedures, e.g., a Fontan operation, and developmental differences in drug ...

where the choir participants underwent what’s called a Fontan surgery to correct a congenital heart defect. Dr Andy Pelech is a cardiologist at Lurie Children’s. “These are children being ...