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DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan is the only hospital in Metro Detroit that provides comprehensive pediatric cardiac services. The cardiac program,  among the finest in the country, provides a full range of advanced services for newborns, infants, children and adolescents with congenital or acquired heart disease and for adults with congenital heart disease. Recenly, the heart and heart surgery program was recognized among the nation's top 30 hospitals in the 2010-11 edition of Best Children's Hospitals, the most extensive listing of its kind, published by U.S.News & World Report.
Pediatric cardiologists provide a full range of invasive and non-invasive procedures, including screening of children at risk of developing acquired heart problems, stress testing, color doppler echocardiography, electrophysiology, pacemakers and cardiac catheterization. In most elective cases, catheterization is an outpatient procedure.
The intermediate inpatient unit is dedicated to cardiology, with telemetry equipment that allows patients to move about freely while their heart functions are monitored continuously. The nurses on this unit are specialists in pediatric cardiac care.
As an academic institution, the Children’s Hospital of Michigan is staffed by physicians actively involved in research. This research ranges from molecular causes of congenital and acquired heart disease, to the use of new devices in the catheterization laboratory designed to eliminate the need for surgery in certain forms of congenital heart disease.
At the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, experts train physicians in the latest pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery techniques. Currently, researchers are developing remarkable new ways to improve pediatric surgical procedures, including techniques to create cardiovascular tubes and valves from a patient’s own living tissues. If successful, the living-tissue tubes and valves would grow with young patients – eliminating the need for multiple tube-and valve-replacement surgeries.
For added convenience patients now have access to DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan pediatric cardiologists in Birmingham and Clinton Township.
For further information call (313) 745-KIDS or toll-free at (888) 362-2500.
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