24/7 referral, consult, admission and neonatal transport assistance.
Cardiovascular care
Overview
The cardiovascular program at Children’s Minnesota is world-class and the largest in the Upper Midwest, providing thousands of the region’s children with cardiovascular care results that are consistently among the best in the nation.
- Atrioventricular septal defect
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Single ventricle defect
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (TAPVR)
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Ventricular septal defect
- Arrhythmia
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congestive heart failure
- Myocarditis
- Newborn screening
- Integrates all pediatric cardiovascular services onto one floor and provides the highest level of technology available in the region, including a cardiac hybrid operating room. Pediatric cardiac intensivists are also devoted to patient care 24/7.
- Provides diagnoses and treatments for all forms of congenital and acquired cardiac diseases, along with 24/7 consultation services.
- Offers diagnostic and less invasive services, including but not limited to:
- Arrhythmia monitoring
- Cardiac catherization
- Early fetal cardiac screening and diagnosis (14–16 weeks gestational age)
- Echocardiography
- Electrocardiography (EKG)
- Electrophysiology studies
- Genetic testing
- Pacemaker interrogation
- Pediatric cardiac CT scans and CT angiography
- Pediatric cardiac MRIs/MRA
- Stress testing
- Provides surgical therapies, including:
- Anomalous coronary artery
- Aorto-pulmonary shunt repair
- Aortic valve repair/valvotomy and replacement
- Arterial switch operation
- Ascending aortic augmentation (replacement)
- Atrial septal defect repair
- AVSD repair
- BCPS/BDG
- Bi-directional Glenn shunt procedure
- Coarctation of the aorta repair
- Diaphragm plication
- Fontan procedure
- Generator change
- Heart transplant
- Interrupted aortic arch repair
- Intra–cardiac defibrillator
- Mitral valve repair
- Norwood procedure
- Pacer placement
- Partial anomalous pulmonary venous repair
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Pericardiostomy
- Pulmonary valve replacement
- Ross procedure
- RV–PA conduit (includes homografts)
- Subaortic stenosis repair
- Tetralogy of Fallot repair
- Total anomolous pulmonary venous repair
- Truncus arterious repair
- Tricuspid valve repair/replacement
- Vascular ring obstruction repair
- Ventricular Assistive Device (VAD)
- Ventricular septal defect repair
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
- Veno–venous ECMO
- Veno–arterial ECMO
Multidisciplinary clinics
- Adult congenital clinic
- Lipid clinic
- Fetal diagnosis and treatment clinic
- Heart failure clinic
- Neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic
- Velocardiofacial (VCF) syndrome clinic
Scheduling for Children’s Minnesota locations
Cardiovascular Care Center:
612-813-7400
The Children’s Heart Clinic:
612-813-8800
800-938-0301