Pediatric CV Surgery - Mayo Clinic

A multidisciplinary team of pediatric experts work together to deliver a customized treatment plan in a child and family-friendly environment. We offer comprehensive medical, minimally invasive and surgical treatment options for children with all types of heart conditions, from the common to the complex, including:

Arrhythmias: Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, Long QT syndrome, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Cardiomyopathies: Dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, myocarditis.
Congenital heart defects: Aortic valve stenosis, atrial septal defect, coarctation of the aorta, Ebstein's anomaly, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, mitral valve abnormalities, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary valve atresia, pulmonary valve stenosis, Tetralogy of Fallot, tricuspid atresia, vascular ring, ventricular septal defect.
Heart failure and heart transplant: Full range of services including ventricular assist devices, total artificial heart, ECMO rehabilitation, “heart in a box” profusion system, and cardiac and multiple organ transplantation; cutting edge therapies including regenerative medicine and other clinical pharmaceutical trials.
Other conditions such as: Eisenmenger syndrome, Kawasaki disease, pulmonary hypertension.

The cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs offer advanced imaging, diagnostics and minimally invasive interventions.
The Heart Rhythm Clinic team specializes in diagnosing and treating children with all types of heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmia).
Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery may be available for teenage patients, which can result in less pain, quicker recovery and smaller scars.
Innovative stem cell and other cell-based therapies.

Your care team will include highly trained specialists in pediatric cardiology who coordinate treatment strategies across pediatric subspecialties, such as:

Pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, nursing, anesthesiology.
Mayo Clinic Center for Congenital Heart Disease.
Imaging, critical care, respiratory therapy, nutritionists, physical and occupational therapy, child life, social work.
Pediatric Heart Failure Program.
Pediatric Heart Transplant Program: Mayo Clinic also has one of the largest and most successful heart transplant programs in the U.S.
Support services, such as child life specialists, palliative care, specialized nursing, patient education, financial counseling, and chaplaincy program.

Mayo Clinic Children's Center is ranked the No. 1 Children’s Hospital in Minnesota according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024–2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings. These rankings are based on surgical survival, parent and family involvement, clinical research and recommendations by pediatric cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons across the nation.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, are ranked among the Best Hospitals for heart and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report.

Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Congenital heart disease is common. Approximately one in 100 live births have a congenital heart defect, so it's really one of the most common congenital birth defects. And the good news for parents and families is that the majority of defects can be fixed; often times with one procedure alone. And they can go on and live a very productive, normal or near normal quality of life. When my kids are seeing the team here at Mayo, I know that they’re gonna get the best care, I know that they're gonna get the best expertise, and I know they're gonna be able to find that expert that they need to figure out what's going on and how best to treat them. If I look at my own practice, I do a lot of minimally invasive cardiac surgery. And I've gotten to do that because I learned it all in the adult population, which is where it started.

In so doing robotic heart surgery in teenagers is something that you can’t get in a children's hospital because they don't have the technology available to them. Where we could do that here. Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery excels at the rare, complex, unique patients where you need a multi-disciplinary approach from different specialists in different surgeons all looking at, at the child and trying to figure out what the what's the best path forward for the child. And that's what we’re known for worldwide. The faculty and all of the allied health in terms of nursing staff in the ICU and respiratory therapy and all of the other important members of the medical team have this enormous history of experience. So that's what you get when you when you come to Mayo Clinic. You have clinicians and health care staff that are just really experienced taking care of these defects. And that's probably one of the strongest reasons to consider Mayo Clinic.

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Coordinated, comprehensive care teams.

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Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

Mayo Clinic Children’s Center in Rochester, Minnesota is a Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center, the highest verification awarded by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).