Congenital Heart Disease Service

The Heart Institute's Center for Congenital Heart Disease provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive approach in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease from fetal life to adulthood. Its multi-disciplinary staffs consist of pediatric and adult cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, radiologists and intensivists. They are led by a team of internationally trained physicians, who are all experts in cardiovascular care.

DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES:

• Electrocardiography

• 24-Hour Ambulatory Recording

• Echocardiography including Fetal Echocardiography and 3-Dimensional TEE

• CT-Angiography (256-slice)

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• Exercise Stress Testing

• Hemodynamic Cardiac Catheterization with Angiography

Special Services:

• Sports Pre-Participation Screening

• Prenatal Screening for Congenital Heart Disease

• Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic

• Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic

THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES:

Non-Surgical

• Transcatheter Intervention

Surgical

• Closed Heart Surgery:

• Ligation of Patent DuctusArteriosus

• Repair of Vascular Anomalies

• Repair of Coarctation of the Aorta

• Shunt Procedures (eg. modified Blalock-Taussig shunt

• Unifocalization

• Pulmonary artery banding

• Epicardial pacemaker implantation

• Epicardial ablation surgery

• Pediatric Thoracic Surgery

Open Heart Surgery:

• Neonatal and infant total correction of congenital heart defects

• Repair of complex congenital heart defects including:

• Single ventricle palliation

• Truncusarteriosus repair

• Pulmonary vein stenosis

• Mitral valve repair

• Aortic valve repair and aortic root reconstruction

• Cone repair for Ebstein's anomaly

• Anomalous coronary arteries

• Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia

• Excision of cardiac tumors

• Surgery for Adult Congenital Heart Disease

• Surgery for Rheumatic Heart Disease

• Surgery for Arrhythmias

• Surgery for Endocarditis

Minimally Invasive:

• ASD closure

• VSD closure

• Mitral Valve Repair

• Aortic Valve Repair

• Aortic Valve Replacement

• Coronary sinus unroofing

Hybrid Operations:

• Hybrid single ventricle palliation

• Transapical aortic valve placement

• Transatrial and transventricular device closure

• Transaortic and transpulmonary stent placement