Pediatric Surgeon Develops Groundbreaking Less-Invasive Heart Surgery

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It’s a fairly common birth defect that often corrects itself as the child gets older, but when it doesn’t doctors have to open up the chest leaving large scars on the child’s chest.
But one Sutter Health doctor has come up with a way to avoid that invasive approach and speed up recovery time for his patients with heart defects.
Sutter Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon Naruhito Watanabe made history as the first doctor in the United States to fix a congenital