The Congenital & Children's Heart Centre provides a comprehensive service for the rapid evaluation, investigation, diagnosis and ongoing care of all types of heart disease in infants, children and teenagers, and in the unborn child by a paediatric cardiologist.
The Children's Heart Centre provides a single point of referral to a range of specialities including paediatric cardiology, echocardiography, electrophysiology (heart rhythm disturbance), fetal cardiology and paediatric cardiac surgery.
Piers Daubeney, Cardiologist
Conditions evaluated and treated include:
- Heart murmurs
- Congenital heart disease
- Acquired heart disease such as Kawasaki disease or cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmias
- Generalised diseases requiring cardiac monitoring such as Marfan's syndrome, Ehlers Danlos, Noonan syndrome, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolaemia, Hyperlipidaemia, DiGeorge syndrome, Down syndrome
Screening for:
- Cardiomyopathy and sudden death
- Athletes
- Adverse cardiac family history
Symptoms such as:
- Chest pains
- Palpitations and tachycardia (sensation of a fluttering, fast or irregular heart beat)
- Faints and 'funny turns'
- Blue spells
Fetal echocardiography
- Ultrasound scanning of pregnant women with suspicion of, or known congenital heart disease in the unborn child
