Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Adult patients with congenital heart
disease present with complex conditions
requiring intervention. Such procedures
range from open heart operations
to catheter-based interventions to
electrophysiologic procedures (closed).
More patients who have undergone
repair in infancy are reaching adulthood.
Reoperations and interventions will be
necessary to either maintain or improve
hemodynamic and electrophysiologic
function.
The comprehensive Adult Congenital
Heart Center at Penn and the
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are
prepared to deal with the challenges
of managing these complex patients
and their unique anatomy and
physiology alike.
Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center
The Philadelphia
Adult Congenital Heart Center was founded
in 2005 under the direction of Gary Webb, MD,
as a joint program of Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia (CHOP). To meet the demanding needs
of patients with ACHD, the multidisciplinary
team at the center includes cardiologists, interventional
cardiologists and electrophysiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists,
geneticists, heart failure specialists and high-risk obstetric and reproductive
care specialists.
The center is directed by Gary
Webb, MD.* Thomas L. Spray,
MD,† leads the surgical
team, which includes Stephanie
Fuller, MD† and
Alberto
Pochettino, MD.* The medical team includes
Richard
Donner, MD,† Martin
St. John Sutton, MD* and Alex
Davidson, MD.†
*Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
†Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Anomalies of Patients who
Benefit from Regional ACHD Centers:
- Atrioventricular
Septal Defects
- Coarctation of the Aorta
- Common Arterial Trunk
(Truncus Arteriosus)
- Complex Arrhythmias
- Congenitally Corrected
Transposition of the Great Arteries
- Cyanotic
Congenital Heart Disease
- Double Outlet Ventricle
- Double Inlet Ventricle
- Ebstein Anomaly
- Eisenmenger Syndrome
- Single Ventricle
- Partial Anomalous Venous
Connection
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Vascular Rings
- Ventricular Septal Defects
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