The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Nicklaus Children's Hospital serves the ever-growing population of adults who were born with congenital heart defects (CHD). Some people with CHD were diagnosed and treated as children, and continue with us for ongoing care during adulthood. Others were diagnosed with CHD as adults, and come to us as new patients for initial evaluation and management.

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program collaborates with adult cardiologists in the community in the transition to care through adulthood.

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Specialists

The Adult Congenital Heart Program includes a comprehensive team including:

• Pediatric cardiologists board-certified in adult congenital heart disease
• Cardiac imaging experts
• Cardiac interventionists
• Cardiac electrophysiology specialists
• Cardiac intensivists
• Cardiac surgeons

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program cares for adult patients of any age, and offers routine outpatient surveillance, advanced cardiac imaging including cardiac MRI, arrhythmia management, pregnancy care, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, and congenital cardiac surgery.

Cardiac Imaging & Diagnostic Services

The program provides diagnostic and interventional, therapeutic cardiac catheterizations for correction or palliation of lesions, as well as

• Cardiac MRI
• Cardiovascular surgery
• CT Scan (Computed Tomography)
• Echocardiography
• Fetal Echocardiograms
• Pacemaker and Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy (AICD)
• Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac rhythm disturbances

Conditions We Treat

• Cardiac Arrhythmia
• Congenital Heart Defects/Disease

We are committed to helping our patients grow, live and thrive through all phases and milestones of adulthood.