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Find a physician specializing in Congential Heart Disease
UVa has a collaborative program for fetal diagnosis and early management of congenital heart disease (CHD) with the UVa Children's Hospital Heart Center and the Perinatal Diagnostic Center, in addition to a program dedicated to comprehensive treatment of adults with CHD. Pediatric and adult cardiologists with specific training in congenital heart disease coordinate a team comprising specialists in electrophysiology, heart failure, interventional cardiology, cardiac imaging, cardiovascular surgery, anesthesia, maternal-fetal medicine and genetics, as well as nursing specialists in pediatric and adult cardiology.
Services and offerings include:
- Evaluation and management
- Comprehensive diagnostics, including echocardiography and fetal echocardiography and cardiac MRI
- Dedicated interventional cardiac catheterization for pediatric and adult patients
- One of the largest cardiovascular surgery programs in the mid-Atlantic region and the only pediatric heart and lung transplant program in Virginia
- Largest adult cardiopulmonary organ transplant program in Virginia.
- Advanced drug therapies and devices for heart failure, including mechanical assist devices
- Full spectrum of electrophysiology services, including cardiac resynchronization therapy, ablation, and devices.
- Interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons specifically trained in the treatment of congenital heart disease.
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