Cardiology
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Overview
Our cardiologists see patients in the Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. This comprehensive program provides seamless care for children with cardiac disease and has grown to become one of the nation's top programs for medical and surgical treatment of congenital heart defects. Through our determination, research and expertise, Herma Heart Center has accomplished some of the best results worldwide for treating the most complex heart conditions.
Specialty highlights
Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital remains one of the busiest pediatric heart programs in the nation performing more than 750 cases (>340 open-heart) annually.
Children's Specialty Group physicians have helped Herma Heart Center attain the following:
The best published survival rate in the world for the Norwood procedure.
Survival rates of greater than 98 percent for all cardiac operations.
A higher than average number of the most complex open-heart procedures.
The lowest mortality rate in the most complex neonatal and pediatric patient operations.
The fourth-highest number of pediatric and neonatal open-heart admissions.
 Six of our cardiologists are listed in the 2007-2008 Best Doctors in America® database. The 40,000 U.S. physicians who make the list represent the top 3 to 5 percent of the nation's practing board-certified physicians.
Stuart Berger, MD, chief of Pediatric Cardiology, also is medical director of Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillators in Adam's Memory), which helps schools obtain automated external defibrillators and the training necessary to utilize them.
Steven Zangwill, MD, leads the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship program at Children's Hospital, which received full accreditation and began training fellows in June 2004.
Developed a Pediatric Preventative Cardiology Clinic at Children's Hospital, as well as a comprehensive Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic and Marfan Syndrome Clinic.
Research
- The Echocardiographic Research Laboratory was awarded an NIH grant to study infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome treated at 16 centers across the country.
- The Wisconsin Pediatric Cardiac Registry obtains demographic data on children born with congenital heart defects to identify potential caused of these defects.
- Development of a pediatric cardiac quality of life survey instrument.
- Exercise tolerance in children following repair of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Cardiology team
Pediatric Cardiology has grown to become one of the nation's top programs for medical treatment of congenital heart defects and heart disease.
- Click here to view a listing of cardiologists, including their specialties and bios.
Cardiology services
- Pediatric cardiology, serving children born with congenital heart disease.
- Adult cardiology, serving the increasing number of people born with congenital heart disease who are living into adulthood.
- Echocardiography, including transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography.
- Fetal echocardiography to diagnose serious fetal congenital heart defects and/or arrhythmias before birth.
- Interventional cardiac catherterization to open valves and areas of narrowing in arteries.
- Preventive cardiology, including identifying risk factors and correcting defects before they become serious.
- Pediatric electrophysiology and radio-frequency ablation to diagnose and treat pediatric cardiac arrhythmias.
- Exercise physiology to test exercise limitations of children with congenital heart disease.
- Marfan and connective tissue disorders.
Programs & Clinics
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