Congenital Heart Disease

Treatment of Children

Doctors with training in treating children who have heart disease (pediatric cardiologists), surgeons and other specialists work together in the Center for Congenital Heart Disease at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to care for children who have congenital heart diseases.

For more than 60 years, Mayo Clinic doctors have been treating congenital heart disease in children and adolescents. Each year, heart specialists treat more than 5,000 children and adolescents who have congenital heart disease. Heart surgeons perform more than 350 operations each year to treat congenital heart disease. Doctors and researchers have contributed many developments in congenital heart disease treatment, including helping to create the subspecialty of pediatric cardiology.

Children with congenital heart disease are cared for in the Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The hospital includes a 25-bed cardiovascular unit dedicated to pre- and postsurgical care of children who have congenital heart disease. More than 60 nurses with training in treating children and adolescents who have congenital heart disease staff the unit. In the hospital, child life specialists help you and your child deal with natural fears about illness, medical procedures and hospital care.

Appointments

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