Interventional Cardiology – nationwidechildrens.org

About our Interventional Cardiology Program

We believe quality and safety are top priorities. Our program participates in national and international quality improvement efforts including:

Interventional cardiology is truly the future of heart care for children and adults, allowing complex procedures to be successfully completed while leaving the patient with a band-aid, rather than a scar. At Nationwide Children's, the full range of interventional cardiology procedures is available:

Dramatic improvements in interventional cardiac catheterization treatments and techniques allow specialists to care for more and more cardiac problems without surgery. Our cardiac interventionists are among the best in the world, pioneering treatments right here at Nationwide Children's. This innovative spirit has led to a collaborative interventional catheterization and cardiothoracic surgery program, causing the lines between transcatheter and surgical treatment strategies to blur. Thus, The Heart Centers need for a therapeutic suite that is compatible with both interventional cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

Aimee Armstrong, MD, is the Director of Cardiac Catheterization & Interventional Therapies at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Her research interests include pediatric and fetal interventional cardiology, clinical trials in congenital interventional catheterization and innovations research for pediatric cardiac catheterization.

Darren P. Berman, MD is co-Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Therapy in The Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His clinical interests include catheterization and catheter-based therapies; and his research interests include transcatheter valve therapies and bioabsorbable materials.

Brian Boe, MD, is a congenital interventional cardiologist at Nationwide Childrens Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His research interests include improving interventional outcomes and innovative approaches within congenital heart disease.

We offer Interventional Cardiology expertise in:

The Heart Center has taken a cutting-edge leap with the opening of two hybrid cardiac suites, which combine innovations in catheterization, diagnostic and telecommunication technologies.

Unlike catheratization suites, the Hybrid Operating Suite is designed specifically around the cardiac surgeon and cardiac surgical patient, offering new advanced access and imaging in the operating room.

Just two years old at the time, Zoey Jones was told she would need a heart and lung transplant for her failing organs, a complication due to the single ventricle heart defect she was born with. She was referred to Nationwide Childrens Hospital where they began to prepare for a transplant, when a second look in the catheterization laboratory (cath lab) led doctors to believe her heart and lungs were strong enough to avoid transplant altogether.

The Heart Center had a key role in the FDA approval of the Medtronic Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve and Ensemble Delivery System as well as with the development of both the stent and balloon-in-balloon products. This new treatment is the first in the United States offering minimally-invasive treatment options for congenital heart disease patients. This will help minimize and delay the need for multiple open heart surgeries over a patient's lifetime. Nationwide Children's was one of five initial clinical trial locations.

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