UI Children’s Hospital – Cardiology

About Care for Heart Conditions

Heart problems can affect young children, adolescents, or the baby in the womb. If there are concerns about your childs 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 Childrens 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:

Diagnostic services include:

UI Childrens Hospital also offers consultations and follow-up appointments with a pediatric cardiologist in other Iowa communities.

Read additional health library articles on pediatric cardiology

Families whose child has heart disease can meet other families through the Heart Friends Support Group. In addition to support, the group holds informative meetings and seeks to raise public awareness of congenital heart conditions.

Interested parents and families whose children are cared for at University of Iowa Children's Hospital are encouraged to join.

We believe parents and family members know their children best. At UI Childrens Hospital you are an equal partner on the pediatric health care team. We listen to you and your child so that we can work together to improve your childs health and well-being.

Valentine's Day will mark one year since Hailey Steimel's life-saving heart transplant. Having just completed her first annual check-up, the Prairie High Senior's prognosis is good. But Hailey's journey back to health has taken her entire life. Read more about Hailey's life-saving heart transplant.

At 5 weeks old, Chloe, from Fort Dodge, Iowa became the youngest and smallest baby in the world to undergo a catheter ablation with 3-D mapping at UI Childrens Hospital. Read more about Chloe and our cardiology team.

Krystal has been in and out of the hospital her entire life, and has been hospitalized since September 2012 waiting for a heart transplant.Read more about Krystals story.

Before birth, a routine ultrasound showed something was wrong with Ellie's heart. By age five, she had three major surgeries and nine catheterizations.Read more about Ellie.

Growing up, Maggie was no stranger to the children's hospital. She now works in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, delivering the same excellent level of patient-centered care that she had once received herself.Read more about Maggie's story

Rebecca was among the first to receive a Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve at University of Iowa Childrens Hospital, the only site in Iowa to offer this minimally invasive option. Read more about Rebecca's story.

Ty's mother knew something was wrong. A few days later, Ty underwent his first surgery. Read more about Ty's story.

Abby's participation in the Iowa Ladies Football Academy not only benefitted the children's hospital it brought back memories of her own serious heart condition.Read more about Abby's story.

Brock was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome is severely underdeveloped. Read more about Brock's.

Will underwent his first open-heart surgery when he was two, but now swims and runs track. Read more about Wills story.

She was a very sick baby and her parents were terrified, but Shelby was a little girl with a big heart.Read more about her story.

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