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The Division of Cardiology specializes in
providing state-of-the-art inpatient, outpatient, and consultive
care. Specialists provide health care services for a full range
of pediatric cardiovascular disorders, including congenital
heart disorders, rheumatic heart disease, hyperlipidemia,
Kawasaki's disease, syncope, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis,
hypertension, transplantation cardiology and arrhythmia
evaluation. A complete range of studies are available, including
exercise testing, Holter monitoring and nuclear cardiology
testing.
The Division is one of the largest centers for
Pediatric Cardiology care in Virginia in terms of patient
volume. The division allocates at least 50% of its daily
activity to the care of outpatients with an office at Children's
Hospital of The King's Daughters and two off-site satellite
offices. In addition, an outreach clinic on the Eastern Shore is
staffed monthly.
Over 300 cardiac catheterizations are done
yearly. A large majority of these are interventional
catheterizations consisting of state-of-the-art equipment and
technology used to cure patients without resorting to surgery. A
new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory was opened in the early
spring of 2002 at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters.
The Division performed over 3,500
two-dimensional and transesophageal echoes in the past year.
This consisted of outpatient, inpatient and the Catheterization
Lab to help augment the interventional catheterizations
performed by the Division.
The Division also serves as one of two groups in
the state supplying expertise in pediatric electrophysiology
which includes the placement of pacemakers, electrophysiologic
catheterization and radio frequency ablations.
Faculty
Contact Information
| Address: |
Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
601 Children's Lane
Norfolk, VA 23507 |
| Phone: |
(757) 668-7214 |
| Fax: |
(757) 668-8225 |
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