Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization
The Congenital Heart Program offers a full range of diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterizations for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and adults with congenital heart disease. Our advanced team performs these procedures in a state-of-the-art biplane facility utilizing the most advanced tools and technology available, always tailored to the needs of individual patients, and with an extremely low mortality.
Many advances have been made in recent years to successfully treat certain congenital heart defects by non-surgical catheterization-based procedures. Albany Medical Center has contributed to these advances by actively participating in multi-center clinical trials. A wide variety of devices, balloons, coils, plugs, and stents are now routinely used to close congenital defects such as atrial septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus, and to open congenital obstructed vessels and valves such as coarctation of the aorta, pulmonary artery stenosis, pulmonary valve stenosis and aortic valve stenosis. Approximately 75% of cardiac catheterizations for congenital heart disease are interventional in nature.
Our team has the largest experience in Upstate New York with device closure for atrial septal defect both in children and adults, and with device closure for patent foramen ovale in adults with cryptogenic stroke. Treatment of congenital heart defects by cardiac catheterization offers patients the advantages of a very short hospital stay and rapid recovery.
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The Congenital Heart Program at Albany Medical Center offers telephone consultation for all physicians and patients who require our assistance.
- 518-262-6683
Information regarding Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgeons (Albany Medical Center) - 518-489-3292
Appointments and Administrative Calls with Medical Staff Pediatric Cardiologists - 518-262-4660
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