Conditions and services

The cardiovascular program at Children’s Minnesota offers a full range of services.

We diagnose and treat a full range of heart and blood vessel conditions in fetuses, babies, children and teens. Our patients also include adults who need long-term care for heart defects they have had since birth. We know your child deserves the very best cardiovascular care, and one thing will remain the same: our commitment to excellence.

About 1 in every 100 babies is born with a heart defect. Some are critically ill at birth. Others are diagnosed later during routine doctor visits. These heart defects can take numerous forms.

At Children’s Minnesota, we’re experts in diagnosing and treating a lot of heart conditions, including:

Cardiovascular services

Diagnostic and less invasive services

• Arrhythmia monitoring (home monitoring)
• Cardiac catheterization
• Echocardiography (available in Minneapolis and St. Paul at MWFCC)
• Electrocardiography (EKG)
• Electrophysiology studies
• Fetal diagnosis
• Genetic testing
• Pacemaker interrogation
• Pediatric cardiac CT scans and CT angiography
• Pediatric cardiac MRIs /MRA
• Stress testing
• Transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure with Amplatzer Piccolo™
• Transcatheter valve replacement with Harmony™ TPV

Surgical therapies

Cardiovascular surgical therapies include:

• Heart failure therapies and heart transplant

Specialty services and programs

• Cardiac Physical Activity Program
• Cardiac neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic
• Cardiogenetics Program
• ECMO program
• Fetal cardiology (available in Minneapolis and St. Paul at MWFCC)
• Heart failure clinic
• Lipid clinic
• Marfan syndrome program
• Midwest Adult Congenital Cardiac (MACC) Center
• Pulmonary hypertension program
• Single ventricle program
• School intervention program
• Tracheal disorders program
• Velocardiofacial (VCF) syndrome clinic

Learn more about our organization’s services available to patients and their families.