Pediatrics

Pediatric Cardiology

UCLA Division of Pediatric Cardiology: World-class institution. World-class care.

Based in the UCLA Children's Heart Center, and covering the adjacent UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (both highly rated by U.S. News and World Report), the UCLA Division of Pediatric Cardiology provides extraordinary cardiac care that spans a lifetime, all within the same, world-class institution. Highlights include:

  • Fetal cardiac evaluation, diagnosis and treatment, including first/second/third trimester fetal echocardiography, endovaginal and transabdomenal imaging with state-of-the-art 2D/3D equipment, and close collaboration with UCLA subspecialists in obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, nursing, social work, radiology, anesthesiology, neonatology, and cardiothoracic surgery
  • State-of-the-art labor and delivery suites down the hall from the high-risk neonatal intensive care unit for delivery of patients identified prenatally with congenital heart disease anticipated to require early neonatal intervention
  • World-class pediatric diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization laboratory, offering procedures which traditionally have required conventional surgery
  • Dedicated, highly skilled and widely recognized congenital heart surgical program and dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit
  • Nationally acclaimed pediatric electrophysiology program for the diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias and syncope (loss of consciousness)
  • Outreach programs into Los Angeles, Kern, Riverside, Orange and San Diego Counties
  • World-class pediatric heart failure, cardiomyopathy and cardiac transplantation programs
  • State-of-the-art pediatric noninvasive cardiology laboratory, offering all forms of transthoracic, transesophageal and fetal echocardiography, as well as stress testing, MRI and CT cardiac evaluation
  • Transitional cardiology program dedicated to adolescents with congenital and acquired forms of heart disease
  • Seamless transition into the world-renowned Ahmanson-UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Program