Pediatric Cardiology

The pediatric cardiologists at Children's Heart Institute provide a broad range of services for children with congenital and acquired heart disorders. Children with complex health problems that often accompany heart disorders benefit from comprehensive, multidisciplinary care delivered in collaboration with other departments within Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Children require special equipment because they have smaller hearts and blood vessels. They also have special sedation and monitoring needs because of their age and ability to cooperate during care.

Children’s Heart Institute provides the following services:

• Expert diagnosis of cardiac problems
• Interventional cardiology
• Diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization
• Electrophysiology and other non-invasive imaging
• Intensive care medicine
• Fetal cardiology
• Preventive cardiology
• Balloon angioplasty and valvoplasty
• Fetal and pediatric echocardiography
• Diagnostic fetal cardiology and genetic counseling
• Level I trauma care
• Investigational drug studies