Vascular Medicine

Pediatric Cardiology

Pediatric Cardiology is a specialty that addresses heart lengthy in babies and unborn babies also , kids and teenagers. cardiomyopathy and myocarditis. common arterial trunk truncus arteriosus congenital heart syndrome. functionally uni ventricular heart includes tricuspid atresia, double inlet left ventricle.

Pediatric cardiologists and pediatric cardiac surgeons often work closely together, especially when treating children with congenital heart defects, but a pediatric cardiac specialist is not a pediatrician. A pediatric cardio thoracic doctor comes out of an lengthy course of training within the discipline of surgery with many years of specialty training. Training includes five years of normal surgery, two to three years of chest and heart surgery, and another two to four years of the pediatric heart surgery. This specialist does treatment to correct heart defects and may also do pediatric heart transplants and other procedures.