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Cardiology
Clinical Services
The Section of Cardiology functions within the auspices of The Children's Hospital Heart Institute. The clinical service is designed to provide the highest quality of cardiac care in the most efficient fashion to the more than 10,000 children treated annually: 8,000 at The Children's Hospital, 1,100 in community settings in the metropolitan area and 1,300 in the tri-state region.
Echocardiography/Cardiac Imaging - Offers state-of-the-art equipment and techniques, including 3-D echocardiography, MRI and intracardiac echo (ICE), to diagnose pediatric heart disease. The echo lab performs about 10,000 echocardiograms per year.
Fetal Cardiology Clinic - Performs fetal echos on the unborn child, allowing doctors to make prenatal diagnoses used to develop effective treatment plans for the child born with pediatric heart disease.
Cardiac Catheterization Lab/Interventional Cardiology - Offers a wide variety of procedures, including diagnostic catheterization, stent and coil placement, ballooning, radiofrequency ablation, device closure of ASD, VSD and PDA and interventional palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome with PDA stent and internal flow limiting devices.
Cardiac Transplantation - One of the nation's largest pediatric transplant programs, offers extensive pre-, peri- and post-transplant care to patients born with pediatric cardiac disease that is otherwise medically untreatable.
Exercise Physiology Lab - Performs a variety of exercise tests, including ambulatory measurement of peak oxygen consumption and single breath cardiac output, aiding cardiologists in the treatment of cardiac disease.
Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic - Specializes in diagnosis and treatment of children with pulmonary hypertension using the latest medications and nitric oxide.
Arrhythmia Clinic - Treats children with cardiac arrhythmias using medications, radiofrequency ablation, pacemakers, cryoablation of arrhythmias and advanced electro-anatomic mapping.
Cardiomyopathy Clinic - Through diagnostic testing, medication and patient monitoring, specializes in the medical management of children diagnosed with cardiomyopathy.
Obesity/Shapedown - Works with the family treating obese children through lifestyle changes in eating habits and exercise.
High Cholesterol Clinic - Treats children with high cholesterol or children at high risk for high cholesterol.
Marfan Syndrome Clinic - Specializes in diagnosis and treatment of children with Marfan syndrome.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic - Specializes in diagnosis and treatment of adults with congenital heart disease with state-of-the-art equipment, including cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit - The Children's Hospital Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is a dedicated intensive care unit featuring expertise in the care of patients with all forms of congenital heart abnormalities and various acquired cardiovascular diseases. As the only pediatric CICU in the seven-state region, the CICU team provides state-of-the-art critical care services to neonates, children and adults undergoing cardiac surgery, including heart transplantation, those undergoing cardiac catheter-based interventions, patients requiring short-term mechanical circulatory support and those requiring treatment of associated complex medical conditions. The CICU is staffed by full-time cardiologists who work in close collaboration with cardiovascular surgeons and dedicated nurses, respiratory therapists, nutritionists and social work staff.
Outreach Program - The Cardiology Department of The Children's Hospital Heart Institute has a large outreach program serving both metropolitan Denver and the entire Colorado-Wyoming region. The metro Denver satellites are located in Broomfield, Littleton, Parker and Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
Broomfield and Parker are open on a half-day basis each week. Littleton is open one to two days each week. Wheat Ridge is open multiple days each week. These local offices served over 1,100 patients in 2007. The regional sites in Basalt, Fort Collins, Glenwood Springs, Greeley, Leadville and Frisco, Colorado as well as Casper, Cheyenne, Lander and Laramie, Wyoming, recorded over 1,000 patient visits in 2007.
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