The centre looks after all patients with heart defects by birth, no matter what their age. So the patient may be a newborn baby or an adult, if he/she has a heart defect by birth, our team can help.
Further, if a patient less than 21years of age has any heart ailment, not just ones by birth, we can help as well.
Take a look at the lists below. These are all conditions which are our areas of expertise.
Heart Defects by Birth:
Holes in the heart (ASD, VSD, AVSD)
PDA
Valve stenosis (AS, PS)
Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection (TAPVC)
Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
Coarctation of the Aorta
Truncus Arteriosus
Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV)
Single ventricle (Tricuspid atresia and others like it)
ALCAPA
Aortic arch anomalies (double aortic arch, vascular ring, sling)
Aorto-pulmonary window
Heterotaxy
Cardiac tumors
Many other defects in the heart that a baby can be born with.
Heart Disease in Children; other than birth defects:
Cardiomyopathy (Dilated, Hypertrophic, Restrictive, Non-Compaction, Arrhythmogenic Ventricular Dysplasia)
Infective Endocarditis
Myocarditis
Pericarditis
SVT (arrhythmias)
Complete Heart Block and other rhythm disturbances
Systemic Hypertension
Rheumatic heart disease
Kawasaki Disease
Pulmonary Hypertension, primary
Pulmonary Hypertension, Eisenmenger
Hyperlipidemias in children
Services:
ECG
Echocardiography (real time 3D echo, fetal echo)
Pulse Oximetry
Blood pressure monitoring
3D printed Heart Models
Exercise Stress Test
6minute walk test
Holter Monitor
Cardiac Catheterization (Diagnostic and Interventional Cath, Electrophysiology studies, biopsy)
Cardiac Surgery: Open Heart, Closed Heart, Minimally Invasive
