Cardiology

Care for Heart Conditions

Heart problems can affect young children, adolescents, or the baby in the womb. If there are concerns about your child’s heart health, your pediatrician may recommend a cardiologist, a specialist in the detection and treatment of heart disease in children. The pediatric cardiologists at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital are dedicated to providing compassionate, state-of-the-art and convenient delivery of care to children and young adults.

The pediatric cardiology division offers complete clinical services for the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart disease in babies, children and young adults.

Board-certified specialists offer the complete range of evaluation and management to the following disorders:

• Congenital heart disease in children and adults 
• Fetal heart disease
• Acquired heart disease (such as cardiomyopathies, Kawasaki disease, etc.)
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Adolescent cardiology
• Blood lipid disorders
• Comprehensive assessment of murmurs
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
• Evaluation and management of:
  • chest pain
  • syncope
  • cyanotic newborn 

Diagnostic services include:

• Electrocardiograph (ECG) interpretation
• Arrhythmia evaluation and management
• Echocardiography
• Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
• Interventional catheterization
• Radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmias
• Pacemaker management
• Surgical management of congenital heart lesions
• Cardiac transplantation
• Evaluation and management of families with a history of premature coronary heart disease
• Cardiac MRI
• Exercise testing
• Fetal echocardiography

UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital also offers consultations and follow-up appointments with a pediatric cardiologist in other Iowa communities.

To view our pediatric cardiology educational videos, visit our YouTube channel.