The division provides state-of-the-art diagnostic and management support
of infants, children and young adults with both congenital and acquired
heart disease.
Services
Clinical:
- Congenital heart disease in children and adults
- Acquired heart disease (e.g., cardiomyopathies, Kawasaki disease,
etc.)
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Adolescent Cardiology
- Blood lipid disorders
- Outreach clinical activities
Diagnostic:
- Comprehensive assessment of murmurs
- Evaluation and managemnt of the cyanotic newborn
- ECG interpretation (resting, ambulatory, exercise and off-site)
- Arrhythmia evaluation and management
- Echocardiography (fetal, transthoracic, transesophageal, remote transmission via teleconference)
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
- Interventional catheterization (balloon angioplasty, intravascular stents, coil occlusion)
- Radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmias
- Pacemaker management
- Surgical management of congenital heart lesions
- Cardiac transplantation
- Evaluation and management of families with premature coronary heart
disease
Research:
- Research on the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias in children and congenital heart disease patients
- Assessment and management of children and congenital heart disease patients who are at risk for or have had a sudden cardiac arrest
- Developmental programming of adult cardiovascular disease
- Role of cholesterol and blood presure as coronary risk factors
- Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy
- Genetic basis of
congenital heart disease
- Noninvasive vascular assessment of the early atherosclerotic process (computed tomography), carotid ultrasound and brachial reactivity)
- Development changes in cardiac metabolism
- Impact of telemedicine on the management of children with congenital
heart disease
- Multicenter drug trials
Cardiology Faculty
- Thomas Scholz, MD, Director
- Michael Artman, MD, Department Head
- Dianne Atkins, MD
- Heather Bartlett, MD, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Director
- Abhay Divekar, MD
- R. Erik Edens, MD, PhD
- Ian Law, MD
- Larry T. Mahoney, MD
- Jill Morriss, MD
- Vickie Pyevich, MD
- Benjamin Reinking, MD
- Nicholas Von Bergen, MD
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Appointments and questions:
M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
319-356-2229
Patient Self Referrals
Emergencies, evenings, and weekends:
319-356-1616
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