Heart Surgery
The heart surgeons at Phoenix Children’s offer a full range of advanced surgical therapies for heart disease, including heart transplant surgery. If your child needs heart surgery, you’ll find world-class care here from specialists who understand and care about kids.
Imaging and Evaluation
- Cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, tissue Doppler, nuclear, MRI and CT scans
- Outpatient evaluation, diagnostic testing and minimally invasive procedures
- Consultations and second opinions
Interventional Cardiology
- Interventional cardiac catheterization – less invasive diagnostic and therapeutic surgery using catheters inserted through blood vessels, guided by advanced imaging technologies
Heart Surgery Services
We specialize in pediatric heart surgery and care, including procedures ranging from outpatient evaluation and therapies to complex bypass and organ transplant procedures, critical care and rehabilitation. Services we offer include:
- Open surgery for heart and related conditions.
- Hybrid procedures, using a combination of heart catheterization and heart surgery.
- Ventricular assist device (VAD) procedures, such as mechanical “heart pump” implantation and management.
- Minimally invasive surgeries, a less invasive surgical approaches requiring tiny incisions as surgeons operate with sophisticated, camera-assisted technologies and techniques.
- Heart transplantation, including multispecialty evaluation, organ procurement and screening, counseling and support, and lifetime follow-up care.
Learn more about various methods of surgery in our Health Library.
Additional Services
Our team also partners with other departments, specialists and programs to serve children and families:
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Electrophysiology and heart rhythm services, including catheter ablation, device implantation and medical arrhythmia management
- Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) with critical care cardiologists available 24/7
- Outpatient and inpatient cardiac rehabilitation
- Counseling and support
- Diet and nutrition counseling
- Education and support
- Financial guidance
- Genetic counseling
- Social services