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THE
HEART INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN provides
a full range of electrophysiologic monitoring and interventional
services, including:
- Evaluation
of syncope
(loss of consciousness) and palpitations
- Evaluation
and therapy of supraventricular tachycardia and Wolff-Parkinson-White
syndrome
- Evaluation
and therapy of ventricular tachycardia
- Evaluation
of families with inherited cardiac rhythm disorders, including
long QT syndrome and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Evaluation
of athletes' risk of syncope
- Trans-telephonic
continuous loop event recording (ECG via telephone)
- Implantable
continuous loop event recording
- Transvenous
pacemaker implantatio at all ages, including newborns
- Internal
cardioverter/defibrillator (AICD) implantations
- Transesophageal
electrophysiologic studies
- Intra-cardiac
eletrophysiologic studies
- Radio frequency
catheter ablations of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia
- Management
of arrhythmia in congenital heart disease including the Fontan
procedure
- Management
of arrhythmia in adults with congenital heart disease
- Management
of slow heart beat in children of mothers with Lupus
We offer outpatient
and inpatient procedures at several sites of metropolitan Chicago,
including:
- Hope Children's
Hospital, Christ Hospital & Medical Center
- Lutheran
General Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
- University
of Illinois, Chicago, IL
- Illinois
Masonic Hospital, Chicago, IL
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