Pediatric Cardiac Care
Congenital Heart Center
We offer a full spectrum of state-of-the-art cardiac services for babies in the womb, newborns and children into adulthood.
The Congenital Heart Center at Holtz Children’s Hospital is an internationally respected center for comprehensive cardiac care. The services provided at the Congenital Heart Center focus on quality of life for our patients and their families, and range from fetal care through adults living with congenital heart disease.
Patients always come first, and our family-centered care integrates families into the healing process.
Our success is a result of the work of a multidisciplinary team of pediatric and congenital specialists, including cardiologists, cardiac intensivists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac nurse practitioners and nurses, cardiac anesthesiologists, and cardiovascular technicians.
Description
The Congenital Heart Center at Holtz Children’s Hospital is an internationally respected center for comprehensive cardiac care. The services provided at the Congenital Heart Center focus on quality of life for our patients and their families, and range from fetal care through adults living with congenital heart disease.
Patients always come first, and our family-centered care integrates families into the healing process.
Our success is a result of the work of a multidisciplinary team of pediatric and congenital specialists, including cardiologists, cardiac intensivists, cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac nurse practitioners and nurses, cardiac anesthesiologists, and cardiovascular technicians.
Our Team
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
Thoracic Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Pediatric Cardiology
Pediatric Cardiology
Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Pediatric Cardiology
Patient Stories
Baby Born with Congenital Heart Disease Receives Treatment at Holtz Children’s Hospital
Yelsi Consuelo Sosa Fermín was just 19 weeks pregnant when she was given the news all expecting mothers dread – there was something wrong with her baby. During a scheduled ultrasound, a doctor noticed the baby’s heart was beating too fast.
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Young Boy Undergoes Life-saving Neurosurgery at Holtz Children’s Hospital
When Christina Belboda looks at her son, Zayne Obileye, she’s thankful to have him in her life after he nearly died. In October 2018, when Belboda picked up her then 13-month-old son from her local daycare, she knew something was wrong with him.
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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at UM/Jackson Enables Injured Orlando Gymnast to Return to Her Sport
Ella Chase was in the middle of her gymnastics season, getting ready for a state competition, when she began feeling a pain in her back. “Nothing I did was making it better, but I felt I had to push through the pain,” Ella said.
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11-year-old Boy Overcomes Brain Tumor Diagnosis
11-year-old Samir Rahman started complaining of sharp pains in the back of his head whenever his parents drove over speed bumps. His mother, Shanta Reza, initially dismissed her son’s concerns. Over time, Samir’s pain went away.
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A Mother’s Unconditional Love Gives Son a Fighting Chance to Receive a Life-saving Kidney Transplant
When Araceli Cantero Obregón was seven months pregnant, doctors in Nicaragua told her that her son Edgard Sequeira would have hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up within the ventricles of the brain.
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