Pediatric Cardiology Program
The Children’s Heart Center at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey
at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center is the state's largest, most comprehensive,
and only heart center offering a complete range of diagnosis and medical
and surgical treatment of children with heart problems, as well as expectant
mothers whose fetus may have a heart problem.
Requesting an Appointment
Prior to scheduling an appointment with one of our specialists, you may need a referral from your child’s pediatrician. In some cases, you may make a self-referral. For a self-referral, please contact us or request an appointment online.
Conditions Treated
Our program is able to treat a variety of heart conditions. These include but are not limited to:
- Aortic valve regurgitation
- Aortic valve stenosis
- Atrial septal defect
- Bicuspid aortic valve disease
- Cardiac tumors
- Cardiomyopathy
- Chest pain
- Coarctation of the aorta
- D-Transposition of the great arteries
- Ebstein anomaly
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Heart arrhythmias
- Heart failure
- Heart murmurs
- Heart palpitations
- Heart valve disease
- Hypertension
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- L-Transposition of the great arteries
- Marfan syndrome
- Myocarditis
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pericarditis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary valve atresia
- Rheumatic fever
- Sudden cardiac arrest
- Syncope
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return
- Truncus arteriosus
- Ventricular septal defects
Procedures Offered
Your child’s cardiologist will decide the specific procedure based on several factors, including the type of heart disease your child has and how severe it is; your child’s age, medical history and lifestyle; and results of tests performed during the initial evaluation. Some procedural options may include cardiac catheterization and cardiac surgery options.
Cardiac Catheterization Options
These procedures can sometimes be diagnostic but mostly in the current era are therapeutic procedures to treat congenital heart disease. Our program has capability of providing all types of FDA approved transcatheter therapy for congenital heart disease in neonates, children, teenagers, and adults. These procedures include:
- Balloon valvotomy
- Balloon angioplasty of pulmonary arteries and aorta
- Creation of atrial septal defect
- Perforation of atretic pulmonary valve
- Stent angioplasty of obstructed veins and arteries along with ductus arteriosus
- Transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus
- Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects
- Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects
- Transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation
- Transcatheter valve in valve treatment for mitral and tricuspid valves
Cardiac Surgery Options
- Arterial switch
- Atrial septal defect surgery (includes transcatheter options)
- Atrial switch
- Bicuspid aortic valve disease surgery
- Fontan procedure
- Glenn operation
- Norwood procedure
- Patch aortoplasty
- Patent ductus arteriosus surgery (includes transcatheter options)
- Resection with end-to-end anastomosis
- Subclavian flap aortoplasty
- Tetralogy of Fallot - Intracardiac repair
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return repair
- Truncus arteriosus repair
- Ventricular septal defect surgery (includes transcatheter options)
Meet Our Team
Instrumental to our program’s success is our passionate, experienced,
and integrated multidisciplinary team comprised of cardiovascular specialists
skilled in all aspects of health care. To learn more about our team members,
please visit our
Pediatric Cardiology Team page.
Access to the Latest Medical and Clinical Research
RWJBarnabas Health Heart, Vascular & Thoracic also prides itself in providing patients with the opportunity to have access to the latest technology and medical advancements via participation in some of the most renowned clinical studies offered. As you are aware, clinical studies help bridge research and patient care by evaluating therapies, drugs and diagnostic tools to drive discoveries into clinical practice. To learn more about our clinical trials, please visit our Clinical Trials page.
