Services & Specialties

Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention Program

Why Choose Us?

For 19 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked our Heart Institute one of the nation’s top pediatric cardiology and heart surgery programs, including seven years through our Joint Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program with Golisano Children’s at UK. 

Our doctors lead and participate in clinical trials for the most advanced procedures including using catheter-based interventions for congenital interventional catheterization. This means your child gets access to leading-edge treatments.

Our team is active in improving cardiac catheterization interventions to treat congenital heart defects and for transcatheter interventions. Our doctors hold leadership positions in the American Academy of Pediatrics and take part in advanced training opportunities from the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.

Highlights of our program include:

• Hybrid cardiac catheterization suite: Our specialty hybrid cardiac catheterization suite allows our interventionists and heart surgeons to perform crossover procedures with other specialists. This lets your child receive two procedures under one anesthesia, reducing the risk of complications.
• MRI visualization: We work with imaging specialists to plan and perform highly precise procedures. Once asleep under anesthesia, your child receives a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test right before a catheterization procedure. This lets the doctors view the blood vessels and blood flow through the heart and determine the best approach.
• The Joint Pediatric Congenital Heart Program Case Management Conference: This program is a collaboration between Cincinnati Children’s and Golisano Children’s at UK. Your child’s medical history, test results and imaging are reviewed by all the heart surgeons, cardiologists, interventionalists and clinicians from both organizations. Experts from different specialties discuss and recommend the best treatment plan for you or your child. After the conference, we contact you and your referring doctor to talk about care options, such as a catheterization or intervention, surgery or both.