Comprehensive evaluation and treatment for infants, children and adolescents are provided in all areas of pediatric cardiology. Levine Children's Hospital continues to be the only facility in the region providing these advanced cardiac services:

• Pediatric Heart Transplants
• Pediatric open-heart surgery
• Pediatric catheterization lab
• ECMO – heart lung bypass to support preemies and children with respiratory failure

Procedures performed or problems diagnosed and treated:

• Previously repaired or palliated cardiac defects
• Non-congenital cardiac abnormalities
• Prolonged QT Syndrome
• Familial hyperlipidemia
• Heart murmurs
• Congenital cardiac defects
• Arrythmias of all types
• Syncope
• Structural abnormalities or malformations of the chest
• Many other cardiovascular abnormalities

Diagnostic Services

• Echocardiography
• Fetal echocardiography to identify defects in utero. This testing is accompanied by physician counseling for the parents and surgical consultation as needed.
• Heart Failure evaluation and management
• Electrophysiologic evaluation of all arrythmias in children
• Cardiac catheterization

Interventional Services:

• Pediatric/Neonatal Cardiac Surgery – the complete spectrum of surgery for congenital heart disease
• Cardiac transplant evaluation and management
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Surgical correction of congenital and non-congenital abnormalities including:
  • Arterial switch for transposition of the great arteries
  • The Norwood procedure for palliation of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
  • Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
  • Cardiac dysrhythmias
  • MAPCA's (Multiaortopulmonary Collateral Arteries) – repair as a single stage in the neonatal period
• Transvenous Pacemaker and AICD implantation
• Interventional catheterization including: angioplasty; valvuloplasty; endovascular stenting; device closure of PDA,ASD; closure of Fontan fenestration; and occlusion of abnormal vascular structure
• Radio-frequency ablation – including atrial and ventricular arrythmias

Physicians

Resai Bengur, MD
Andrew Bensky, MD  
Yuliya A. Domnina, MD 
James René Herlong, MD    
Lisa R. Klein, MD
Donald Riopel, MD 
Nicholas Sliz, MD 
Richard Smith,MD 
Herbert Stern, MD

 

Why Levine Children's Hospital?

• Our services include all the basics such as ECG; stress testing; pacemaker and AICD evaluation and monitoring; 24 hour ambulatory and event monitoring; cardioversion of arrythmias; hypertension treatment; and peripheral vascular evaluation.
• Nearly 2,000 pediatric diagnostic catheterizations have been performed over the past ten years, more than any other provider in the state.