Pediatric Cardiology

Yale Pediatric Cardiology provides diagnosis and treatment of infants, children, adolescents and adults with congenital cardiac malformations and acquired heart disease. Staff cardiologists also see patients in Yale’s satellite locations in Greenwich, Waterbury, Brookfield, Norwalk, Guilford, New London and Norwich. Yale Pediatric Cardiology and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery collaborate to provide innovative and advanced surgical care to patients of all ages requiring surgery.

Yale Pediatric Cardiology includes several centers of excellence. One is the Yale Fetal Cardiovascular Center, which opened in 1985 as one of the first centers of its kind. It provides diagnosis and treatment of fetal cardiac disease and performs nearly 1,000 fetal echocardiograms a year in women whose pregnancy may be affected by congenital heart disease or arrhythmia. The Center provides a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensive care with physicians from Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology and Perinatal Medicine, as well as genetic counselors.

The Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory has been a nationally recognized leader for technological advances in diagnosis and intervention, making treatment available for young cardiac patients who would have otherwise required open heart surgery. The laboratory routinely performs diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures in children and adults with congenital heart disease, including transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, patent ductus ateriosis and patent foramen ovale.

The Yale-New Haven Adult Congenital Heart Program, one of only two complete multidisciplinary programs of its kind in the Northeast, provides care for a new generation of individuals who survived childhood heart disease and are now adults in need of adult cardiologists who specialize in congenital disease. This program strives to provide the most outstanding patient care with social services and support.

The Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory provides non-invasive assessment of cardiac anatomy and physiology. The Pediatric Echo Lab is completely digital in its image acquisition and performs approximately 3,500 studies per year, which encompass the transthoracic, 3-dimensional, transesophageal and intracardiac approaches. The pediatric echo service plays an important role in pre- and intraoperative surgical assessment and planning as well as in the interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory. The pediatric echo service also provides consultative services throughout the state.