Stephanie Fuller, MD

Cardiac Surgery

Sees newborns through age 14

Stephanie Fuller, MD

Cardiac Surgery

Sees newborns through age 14

Surgical Director, Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Dr. Fuller is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

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Acquired Heart Block
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Aneurysm Repair Surgery
Anomalies of Pulmonary Circulation
Anomalies of the Aorta
Anomalous Coronary Artery
Anomalous Pulmonary Artery
Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Aortic Angioplasty
Aortic Arch Aneurysm
Aortic Coarctation
Aortic Root Replacement
Aortic Ulcer
Aortic Valve Procedures
Aortic Valve Sclerosis
Aortic Valve Stenosis
Aortic Valve Surgery
Aortopulmonary Window
Atrial Arrhythmia
Atrial Isomerism
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
Atrial Septal Defect Repair
Atrioventricular Canal Defect
Atrioventricular Septal Defect
Balloon Catheter
Bloodless Cardiac Surgery
Cardiac Implant Closure Devices
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Chylothorax
Circulatory Assist Devices
Collateral Vessel Closure
Common Aortopulmonary Trunk
Congenital Anomaly of Great Veins
Congenital Anomaly of the Aortic Arch
Congenital Anomaly of the Coronary Artery
Congenital Aortic Valve Disease
Congenital Insufficiency of the Aortic Valve
Congenital Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Congenital Pulmonary Valve Atresia
Congenital Stenosis of the Aortic Valve
Congenital Stenosis of the Mitral Valve
Congenital Stenosis of the Pulmonary Valve
Congenital Subaortic Stenosis
Congenital Tricuspid Stenosis
Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
Convergent Procedure
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery (CABG)
Cyanotic Heart Disease
Cystic Adventitial Disease
Double Aortic Arch
Double Outlet Left Ventricle
Double Outlet Right Ventricle
Ebstein Anomaly
Embolectomy
Endocardial Cushion Defect
Enhanced External Counterpulsation
Epicardial Lead Placement
Esophageal Disease
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Heart and Lung Transplantation
Heart Block
Heart Transplant Rejection
Heart Transplantation
Hemitruncus
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Hypoplastic Right Ventricle
Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis
Impella Insertion
Impella Management
Infiltrative Disorders of the Heart
Infundibular Pulmonic Stenosis
Interrupted Aortic Arch
Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
Intracardiac Foreign Body
Intravascular Foreign Body
Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Junctional Arrhythmia
Konno Procedure
Left Atrial Appendage Closure
Left Ventricular Assist Device
Levocardia
Loeys-Dietz Syndrome
LV to Aorta Tunnel
Malformation of the Heart
Malposition of the Heart and Cardiac Apex
Marfan Syndrome
Maternal Valvular Disease
Maze Procedure (Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation)
Mechanical Circulatory Support
Median Sternotomy
Mediastinal Disease
Mediastinal Disorders
Mediastinal Tumors
Mediastinitis
Mesocardia
Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Minimally Invasive Closure of Atrial Septal Defect
Minimally Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery
Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Minimally Invasive Ventricular Septal Defect Closure
Mitral Regurgitation
Mitral Stenosis
Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Mitral Valve Replacement
Mitral Valve Surgery
Myocardial Bridge
Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass
Overriding Aorta
Paravalvular Leak Closure
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
Patent Foramen Ovale Closure
Percutaneous Atrial Septal Defect Closure
Percutaneous Valvuloplasty
Percutaneous Ventricular Septal Defect Closure
Pericardial Disease
Pericardial Effusion
Pericardiocentesis
Pericardiotomy
Peripheral Pulmonary Stenosis
Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome
Persistent Ostium Primum
Prosthetic Heart Valves
Prosthetic Valve Failure
Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation (PAVMs)
Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm
Pulmonary Artery Coarctation and Atresia
Pulmonary Artery Sling
Pulmonary Artery Stenosis
Pulmonary AV Fistula
Pulmonary Clearance for Surgery
Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
Pulmonary Valve Disorders
Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency
Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (PVS)
Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
Pulmonary Venous Anomalies
Pulmonic Valve Replacement
Reoperative Cardiac Surgery
Replacement of Heart Valve
Rheolytic Thrombectomy
Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis
Rib Tumor
Right Ventricular Outlet Tract Obstruction
Robotic Cardiac Surgery
Rupture of Papillary Muscle
Scimitar Syndrome
Septal Myectomy
Shone's Complex
Single Ventricle Defects
Situs Inversus
Sternal Tumor
Systemic Venous Anomalies
Tetralogy of Fallot
Thoracic Aneurysm Repair
Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm
Thrombectomy
Total Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR)
Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement
Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement
Transposition of the Great Vessels
Tricuspid Atresia
Tricuspid Stenosis
Tricuspid Valve Disease
Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation
Tricuspid Valve Surgery
Truncus Arteriosus
Truncus Arteriosus Communis
Tube Pericardiostomy
Valve-Sparing Surgery
Valvuloplasty
Vascular Ring
Ventricular Aneurysm
Ventricular Arrhythmia
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Ventricular Septal Defect Repair

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Programs and Centers

Penn Medicine's programs and centers combine doctors from many disciplines to coordinate care from start to finish. Dr. Fuller is part of these programs:

Penn Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program

Board Certification

Congenital Cardiac Surgery, 2011
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, 2009

Education and Training

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center; George Washington University Medical Center; Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Primary Location

Penn Heart and Vascular Center

Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
East Pavilion, 2nd Floor
3400 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Penn Medicine Hospital Privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Selected Publications

Greenberg JW, Argo M, Ashfaq A, Luxford JC, Fuentes-Baldemar AA, Kalustian AB, Pena-Munoz SV, Barron DJ, Mertens LL, Husain SA, Heinle JS, Goldie LC, Orr Y, Ayer J, Mavroudis CD, Fuller SM, Morales DLS, Hill GD, Winlaw DS; Ross Collaborative: Long-term outcomes following the Ross procedure in neonates and infants: A multi-institutional analysis Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery : 2024 (Epub).

Forfia P, D’Souza B, Fuller S, Toyoda Y, Kim Y: Use of selective pulmonary vasodilators to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension prior to successful surgical closure of atrial level shunts IJC Heart and Vasculature : 2020 (accepted for publication).

Ho DY, Katcoff H, Griffis HM, Mercer-Rosa L, Fuller SM, Cohen MS: Left valvar morphology is associated with late regurgitation in atrioventricular canal defect Annals of Thoracic Surgery : 2020 (Epub).

Jegatheeswaran A, Cohen MS, Gaynor JW, Mascio CE, Spray TL, Fuller S: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a novel management strategy for interventricular septal hematoma following ventricular septal defect repair Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery : 2019 (Epub).

Jegatheeswaran A, Devlin PJ, DeCampli WM, Welke KF, Williams WG, Blackstone EH, Fuller S, Jacobs ML, Mussatto KA, Woods RK, McCrindle BW: Longitudinal functional health status in young adults with repaired dextro-transposition of the great arteries: A Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society study Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery : 2019 (Epub).

Fuller Stephanie, Ramachandran Abhinay, Awh Katherine, Faerber Jennifer A, Patel Prakash A, Nicolson Susan C, O'Byrne Michael L, Mascio Christopher E, Kim Yuli Y: Comparison of outcomes of pulmonary valve replacement in adult versus paediatric hospitals: institutional influence† European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 56 (5): 2019.

Deng LX, Gleason LP, Awh K, Khan AM, Drajpuch D, Fuller S, Goldberg LA, Mascio CE, Partington SL, Tobin L, Kovacs AH, Kim YY: Too little too late? Communication with patients with congenital heart disease about challenges of adult life Congenital Heart Disease 14 (4): 534-540,2019.

Mascio CE, Irons ML, Ittenbach RF, Gaynor JW, Fuller SM, Kaplinski M, Kennedy AT, Steven JM, Nicolson SC, Spray TL: Thirty years and 1663 consecutive Norwood procedures: Has survival plateaued? Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery 158 (1): 220-229,2019.

Zielonka B, Snarr BS, Liu MY, Zhang X, Mascio CE, Fuller S, Gaynor JW, Spray TL, Rychik J: Resource utilization for prenatally diagnosed single-ventricle cardiac defects: A Philadelphia fetus-to-Fontan cohort study Journal of the American Heart Association 8 (11): e011284,2019.

Gardner MM, Mercer-Rosa L, Faerber J, DiLorenzo MP, Bates KE, Stagg A, Natarajan SS, Szwast A, Fuller S, Mascio CE, Fleck D, Torowicz DL, Giglia TM, Rome JJ, Ravishankar C: Association of a home monitoring program with interstage and stage 2 outcomes Journal of the American Heart Association 8 (10): e010783,2019.

Academic Contact Information

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
34th Street & Civic Center Boulevard
M875, Main Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-590-2708
Patient appointments: 800-789-7366

ACC/AHA Working Group for the NIH/NHLBI on Adults with Congenital Heart Disease, Vascular Subgroup, National
Adult Congenital and Pediatric CV Council, National
Adult Congenital Heart Association, National
American Association of Thoracic Surgery, National
American College of Cardiology, National
American College of Surgeons, National
American Heart Association, National
American Medical Association, National
Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, National
Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, National
Congenital Heart Public Health Consortium (CHSS Representative), National
Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), National
Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society, National
Greater Delaware Valley, Local
Pennsylvania Association for Thoracic Surgery, Local
Society of Thoracic Surgeons, National
Thoracic Surgery Directors Association Executive Committee (Congenital Cardiac Fellowship Committee Chair), National
Women in Thoracic Surgery, National
World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, National