Pediatric Heart Failure
Our Heart Center is one of only 22 pediatric heart transplant programs in the United States and the only one in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area approved to implant the mechanical Berlin Heart® into children.
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Our Heart Center is one of only 22 pediatric heart transplant programs in the United States and the only one in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area approved to implant the mechanical Berlin Heart® into children.
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a medical condition where material from your stomach moves back up (refluxes) into your esophagus. This material can be acidic fluid, non-acidic fluid, food material or a combination of each of those.
Congenital heart disease used to be a pediatric condition, but with advances in diagnosis and heart care treatments, more and more children with congenital heart disease are living into adulthood. Now, adults with congenital heart disease outnumber children.
M Health Fairview Heart Care has been at the leading edge of heart care for many years. In 1986, we became one of the first in the United States to use angioplasty to reopen heart arteries in patients having heart attacks.
M Health Fairview Heart Care surgeons were pioneers in heart transplants, performing the first heart transplant in Minnesota in 1978 and the state’s first heart/lung transplant in 1986.
There are many kinds of heart valve disease. Some affect your aortic valve that directs blood to your aorta. Others affect the mitral valve, which is found between the left atrium and left ventricle.
There are many kinds of heart valve disease. Some affect your aortic valve that directs blood to your aorta. Others affect the mitral valve, which is found between the left atrium and left ventricle.
M Health Fairview surgeons perform 20 to 30 heart transplants annually in children and adults, making our program among the top 15 percent in the United States.
Our C.O.R.E. Clinic was created in 2003 as an outpatient disease management program to help patients with heart failure or cardiomyopathy manage their illness.
We are honored to be recognized with multiple awards for our heart failure care within the M Health Fairview Heart Care system, including "high performing in heart failure care" from U.S. News & World Report.