Treatment for congenital heart disease in adults requires providers with unique training and experience. Our physicians and other caregivers screen for complications and create custom plans for therapy and interventions, such as surgery. We collaborate with pediatric and adult specialists, and make your quality of life our top priority.

Access to Services for Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

• Open heart and minimally invasive heart surgery
• Diagnostic and interventional catheterization
  • Patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect closure
  • Melody valve implantation
• Electrophysiology and pacing
  • Complex ablations
  • Complex anatomical lead placement
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy
  • Automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator placement
• Echocardiography services
• Advanced diagnostic imaging, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT)
• Exercise
  • Stress testing
  • Stress and perfusion imaging
  • Exercise counseling
  • Cardiac rehabilitation
• Cardiac care during pregnancy
  • Congenital and acquired heart disease
  • All cardiac-related pregnancy needs
  • Coordinated care with maternal-fetal medicine specialists
  • Prepregnancy counseling
• Transplant
  • Coordination with congenital and adult heart failure and transplant teams
  • Ventricular assist device program
• Multidisciplinary teams
  • Adult and pediatric cardiologists
  • Adult and pediatric hospitalists and intensivists
  • High-risk obstetric specialists
  • Genetics specialists
  • Specialists in adult dentistry, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, primary care, psychiatry/psychology, pulmonology and surgery
  • Nutrition specialists
• Social services to improve quality of life and access to care
  • Financial guidance
  • Health care insurance
  • Psychological assistance
• Transition program
• Pulmonary hypertension/Eisenmenger syndrome program
• Single ventricle
• Research

Why Choose Norton Children’s Heart Institute

No other congenital heart surgery program in Kentucky, Ohio or Southern Indiana is rated higher by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons than the Norton Children’s Heart Institute Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Program.

• Norton Children’s Hospital has been a pioneer in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, performing Kentucky’s first pediatric heart transplant in 1986 and becoming the second site in the United States to perform an infant heart transplant.
• Our board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric cardiovascular surgeons are leaders in the field as clinicians and researchers.
• More than 5,000 children a year visit Norton Children’s Heart Institute, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, for advanced heart care.
• Norton Children’s Heart Institute successfully performs more than 17,500 procedures a year.
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons rated Norton Children’s Heart Institute among the best in the region after studying years of our patients’ outcomes and our ability to treat a range of pediatric heart conditions, including the most severe.
• Norton Children’s Heart Institute has satellite outpatient offices in Ashland, Bowling Green, Campbellsville, Elizabethtown, Frankfort, London, Madisonville, Murray, Owensboro, Paducah and Shepherdsville in Kentucky; as well as Corydon, Jasper, Madison and Scottsburg in Indiana; 28 tele-echocardiography locations in Kentucky and Southern Indiana; and six fetal echocardiography locations across Kentucky.
• The American Board of Thoracic Surgery has awarded the cardiothoracic surgeons at Norton Children’s Hospital with subspecialty certification in congenital heart surgery.
• The Jennifer Lawrence Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is the largest dedicated CICU in Kentucky, equipped with 17 private rooms and the newest technology available for heart care .
• Our multidisciplinary approach to pediatric heart surgery brings together our specialists in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, anesthesiology, cardiac critical care and other areas to create a complete care plan tailored for your child.