Echocardiography methods, cardiac catheterization, effort electrocardiography, 24-hour Holter ECG examinations are performed in the “Pediatric Cardiology” unit in the diagnosis of congenital heart diseases seen in approximately 1 in 100 live births in our country. In addition, in cooperation with the Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, services are provided in the follow-up of congenital heart diseases, catheterization and surgical treatment.
The unit also successfully diagnoses and treats acquired heart diseases that manifest themselves with findings such as chest pain, limitation of effort and rhythm irregularities that can be observed in children.
In the Pediatric Cardiology Unit, cardiac catheterization procedure for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes can be performed for all kinds of children, including newborns. Those who were born with a hole in their heart or those who have stenosis in the heart valves are successfully treated with angiography. In addition, diagnosis, follow-up and treatment of congenital heart diseases that have reached adult age are performed by the unit.
Patients are admitted 1 day before angiography and discharged in about 2 days. Some of the applications made in the unit are;
- Diagnosis and treatment of a patient with a murmur,
- Sports report,
- Evaluation report of drugs used in Pediatric Psychiatry,
- Transesophageal echocardiography,
- Intracardiac echocardiography,
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization,
- ASD, VSD, PDA closure,
- Balloon valvuloplasty in pulmonary and aortic stenosis,
- Balloon and stent angioplasty in aortic coarctation,
- Balloon atrial septostomy.
