The Cardiac Surgery Unit was established at Children's University Hospital in 2005. Since its inception, it has been serving patients with congenital heart defects by performing between five and seven cases per week between open-heart surgeries and closed-heart surgeries. The unit serves a number of more than 50 cases per week in the hospital’s outpatient clinics.

• Closed-heart surgeries began in early 2006, and in July 2007, the open-heart program was opened in the unit to perform surgeries to repair congenital heart defects in children and heart surgery in newborns, and during the past four years li>

Unit headquarters

Mansoura University - University Children's Hospital (main building - seventh floor).