Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies

Through innovative procedures and treatments, our Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies gives children with serious pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) or late-stage lung disease their best chance at surviving and feeling better while they await lung transplant.

As the only advanced lung therapy center on the West Coast, we’ve brought together heart and lung specialists and subspecialists under one roof to provide in-depth, groundbreaking solutions for your child. If your child has advanced pulmonary hypertension but has a healthy heart, we can often put off transplant with a Potts shunt—a surgical procedure that improves circulation, helping your child feel better and live longer. Because of our care team’s unique blend of expertise, we are one of the few places in the country where a program of this caliber and depth can exist.

Why choose Stanford Medicine Children’s Health for your child’s advanced lung disease care

• Exemplary care from top heart and lung specialists. Because the heart and lungs work together to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the body, they are very closely interconnected. The Center for Advanced Lung (CEAL) Therapies draws from three specialty programs at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health: our renowned Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program, our nationally leading Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center, and our internationally recognized Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease at Stanford. Heart doctors and heart surgeons who specialize in pulmonary vasculature (the blood vessels that route blood from the heart to the lungs) work alongside lung and heart-lung transplant experts and heart failure experts to achieve the best possible health outcome for your child.
• Personalized care for your child. Your child’s care needs are unique. That’s why we provide deeply specialized care to make sure your child receives the right treatments at the right time to grow stronger and feel better. Your child’s tailored care team may include pediatric specialists in pulmonary vascular disease (e.g., pulmonary hypertension), pulmonary artery reconstruction, lung and heart-lung transplant, heart transplant, heart failure, heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, advanced cardiac imaging, cardiac anesthesia, cardiac intensive care, and cardiac nursing.
• Access to revolutionary treatments. CEAL doctors work with the greater Stanford Medicine community to create new heart and lung circulatory support devices that help your child regain strength while she or he awaits transplant. For example, our CEAL team tapped into our experts in bioengineering, biodesign, and computational modeling to create a better design of a child-sized shunt (small tube) for our Potts shunt. Our Basic Science and Engineering (BASE) research initiative within the Moore Children’s Heart Center and the Cornfield Lab for Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy also add to our revolutionary care by exploring remarkable ways to care for children with heart disease and lung disease. We welcome your child to participate in our lung clinical trials.