Karl Reyes, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Karl Reyes, M.D., is a pediatric congenital heart surgeon in Dallas at Children’s Health and an Associate Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is Surgical Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Complex Heart Valve Program, and Director of Congenital Cardiac Surgery Education. Dr. Reyes cares for newborns, infants, children, and adults with congenital heart disease. His surgical practice spans neonatal and infant heart surgery, complex congenital heart repair and reconstruction, single-ventricle palliation, biventricular repair, reoperations, and adult congenital heart surgery. His experience includes procedures such as the Norwood, Glenn, and Fontan operations; arterial switch and aortic arch repair; atrioventricular septal defect (AV canal), tetralogy of Fallot, double outlet right ventricle, and truncus arteriosus repair; and complex valve, aortic root, pulmonary vein, and coronary reconstruction. His clinical interests include Ebstein anomaly and complex valve repair in infants and children. Dr. Reyes completed congenital cardiac surgery fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic. His research focuses on outcomes in high-risk cardiac surgery, neonatal surgery, valve reconstruction, and surgical innovation. His work has appeared in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Pediatric Cardiology, Multimedia Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. He has contributed abstracts and book chapters, reviews manuscripts for specialty journals, and teaches congenital cardiac surgery. Dr. Reyes is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society and the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. He co-founded The Operation Heart Foundation, which partners with Gift of Life International to organize and fund congenital heart surgeries in the Philippines. Education Fellowship Cleveland Clinic Foundation , Cardiovascular Surgery Medical Education University of the East (1999) Internship Philippine General Hospital (2000), General Surgery Residency Philippine General Hospital (2005), General Surgery Fellowship Boston Childrens Hospital (2010), Cardiovascular Surgery Publications Featured Publications Coronary transfer for complex looping and intramural variants in the arterial switch procedure. Murtuza B, Morell V, Reyes K, Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2023 Jan 2023 Complex Infantile Scimitar Variant: Primary Stenosis of a Meandering Pulmonary Vein. Murtuza B, Suh E, Gonzalez J, John JB, Ringewald J, Morell V, Reyes K, Ann Thorac Surg 2021 Oct 112 4 e315 Two-patch transannular repair of tetralogy of Fallot with complete atrioventricular canal defect. Murtuza B, Morell V, Reyes K, Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2021 Jan 2021 Left Atrial Appendage Aneurysm Characterized by Multimodal Imaging. Brenneman DJ, Pitkin AD, Gupta D, Bleiweis MS, Reyes KM, Chandran A, World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2020 Jul 11 4 NP161-NP163 Single-stage repair of interrupted aortic arch type B with ventricular septal defect. Reyes K, Ahmed M, Ellebaidy Z, Amin A, Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2019 Oct 2019 Impact of 3D Printouts in Optimizing Surgical Results for Complex Congenital Heart Disease. Han F, Co-Vu J, Lopez-Colon D, Forder J, Bleiweis M, Reyes K, DeGroff C, Chandran A, World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2019 Sep 10 5 533-538 Hybrid procedure with pulsatile ventricular assist device for hypoplastic left heart syndrome awaiting transplantation. Philip J, Reyes K, Ebraheem M, Gupta D, Fudge JC, Bleiweis MS, J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2019 Aug 158 2 e59-e61 Left Ventricular Aneurysm Following Blunt-Force Trauma in a Child. Brock MA, Co-Vu J, Bleiweis MS, Reyes K, Shih RS, CASE (Phila) 2019 Feb 3 1 39-42 Heart Transplant in Patient With Isolated Left Superior Vena Cava by Atrial Appendage Rotation. Reyes KM, Gupta D, Fricker FJ, Cooke S, Bleiweis MS, Ann Thorac Surg 2018 Jun 105 6 e279-e281 Single-stage repair of double outlet right ventricle with subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (Taussig-Bing anomaly). Ahmed M, Reyes K, Brock M, Bleiweis M, Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg 2018 Jan 2018 Results 1-10 of 26 1 2 3 Next Last Books Featured Books Spontaneous Pneumothorax. In Sabiston and Spencer Surgery of the Chest 8th Edition Karl G. Reyes and David Mason (2010). Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Spontaneous Pneumothorax. In Sabiston and Spencer Surgery of the Chest 9th Edition Neil G. Mores, Karl G. Reyes, Siva Raja, David P. Mason (2016). Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Honors & Awards Rene G. Favaloro, M.D. International Award in Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (2009) Professional Associations/Affiliations International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (2019) The European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (2011) The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2013) The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (2012)
