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Kentucky Children’s Hospital’s pediatric cardiology specialists, cardiothoracic surgeons and pediatric anesthesiologists leverage leading-edge technologies such as fetal echocardiography to care for newborns and children with any heart defect, regardless of its complexity.

With the use of leading-edge technologies, the Kentucky Children's Heart Center team can identify virtually all complex congenital heart diseases in fetuses as young as 18-20 weeks. This information helps the physician team plan the remainder of the mother’s pregnancy and follow-up, including immediate intervention if necessary.

Specialties

Kentucky Children’s Heart Center has subspecialty coverage in a wide range of areas including:

• Arrhythmia detection
• Cardiac catheterization and interventions
• Congenital and acquired heart disease
• Fetal-perinatal cardiology

Non-invasive treatments available:

• Echocardiography (transthoracic, transesophageal, fetal)
• Electrocardiography
• Exercise-stress testing
• Rhythm disturbances
• Pacemaker clinic
• Invasive electrophysiological study and ablation of abnormal electrical pathways Pulmonary hypertension
• Preventive cardiology
• Cardiomyopathy

Services will eventually expand to include pediatric heart transplants for Kentucky Children's Hospital patients.

To make an appointment or find a physician, please call UK HealthCare at 859-257-1000 or toll free 1-800-333-8874.
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