Fetal Heart Program
The staff of the Fetal Heart Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center understands that a new baby brings with it all kinds of feelings: excitement, joy and sometimes apprehension. Finding out that your baby may have a problem brings on all kinds of fears. Today we have the ability to detect many types of heart problems early in a pregnancy. This allows you to become educated, work with your doctors make appropriate birth plans and meet some of the other team members you and your family will encounter after the birth of your child. This in turn can help allay some of those fears.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, families have access to comprehensive care, including:
Fetal Heart Program staff are also available to review test information and provide consultation for second opinions in cases of fetal heart disease.
Directed by Erik Michelfelder, MD, the Fetal Heart team is dedicated to providing exemplary care to the fetus diagnosed with structural or functional heart disease and to supporting the fetus and expectant family in a compassionate, comprehensive manner. Conditions treated include structural heart disease, fetal arrhythmias and fetal cardiac dysfunction.
