If you’re age 21 or older and living with a congenital heart condition,
you can get lifelong specialized services for your heart, as well as complete
care for the complexities of your overall health, from experts in the
Adult Congenital Heart Program at OU Health in Oklahoma City.
Comprehensive Adult Congenital Heart Care
No matter where you live in Oklahoma or across the region and regardless
of your economic status, you and your primary care doctor or cardiologist
can work with the highly skilled cardiac surgeons and specialized cardiologists
at OU Health. These cardiac experts hold extensive training and experience
in paying attention to the subtle details of caring for adults with all
types of congenital heart conditions, including the most complex situations.
Oklahoma’s First Adult Congenital Heart Program
Your OU Health heart care team saw the need and established Oklahoma’s
first and only comprehensive adult congenital heart program decades before
this service was officially designated as a medical specialty. Today at
OU Health, you can get the comprehensive adult congenital heart care and
related services you need, including diagnosis, treatment, referrals,
coordinated care management and continual monitoring, to help you live
a full and productive life.
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Since the late 1980s, astonishing medical advances greatly extended the
lifespan and quality of life for nearly everyone born with congenital
heart conditions and those who needed open-heart surgery during childhood.
Now, at OU Health, you can rely on the Adult Congenital Heart Program
team to provide in-depth, adult-focused care for living well with structural
congenital heart problems such as:
Any other structural anomaly of the heart and/or related blood vessels
If you had open-heart surgery for a congenital condition as a child, you
may also take advantage of services and specialists in the OU Health Adult
Congenital Heart Program.
Adult Congenital Heart Treatments & Services
Whether you contact OU Health directly or get a referral from your primary
care doctor or cardiologist, you gain access to the full range of medications,
surgical procedures and services designed for adults living with a congenital
heart condition. At OU Health, you benefit from a variety of expert treatments
and services such as:
Co-management, direct management or the preferred combination of care approaches
that works best for you and your primary care providers
Continual monitoring (surveillance) with ongoing health care and timely
intervention – Includes regular review of your specific condition
and overall health; helps avoid deterioration into congestive heart failure
(CHF) or other complex health problems
Coronary correction,
coronary stent and other intervention – Involves procedures to open blocked arteries
or vessels and address issues related to adult congenital heart conditions
Electrophysiology services – Includes cardiogram, stress tests, non-invasive imaging
and related diagnostic and treatment options
Fontan surgery revisions and repair of previous surgeries
Late-stage diagnosis of congenital heart disease in adults – Identifies
congenital conditions that didn’t cause symptoms in childhood but
appeared in adulthood or after developing other health problems
At OU Health, you’ll find Oklahoma’s only congenital heart
surgeon who participates in the quality assurance program of The Society
for Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and who regularly ranks in the top 10 percent
nationally for outstanding congenital heart surgery services.
Adult Congenital Heart Care During Pregnancy
When you consider starting or expanding your family as a woman with a congenital
heart condition, choose OU Health for top-quality care. You’ll work
with highly regarded experts in
maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) and
high-risk pregnancy (obstetrics) who apply their experience to treating the most complex situations.
Through the OU Health Adult Congenital Heart Program, you and your OB-GYN
provider or primary care physician will collaborate with OU Health congenital
heart specialists, MFM specialists and experts in the OU Health Fetal
Heart (Fetal Echo) Program. That means you and your baby receive the comprehensive
attention you need for all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and follow-up care.
Functional Heart Care & Electrophysiology
For functional heart conditions, such as problems related to the heart’s
electrical system, get treatment from OU Health
adult heart care services, including the Cardiac Catheterization & Electrophysiology Lab in
Oklahoma City.
At OU Health, your adult congenital heart care team involves experts from
multiple healthcare disciplines who focus on your specific situation.
You’ll collaborate with specialists from many areas, such as surgery,
minimally invasive catheter-based procedures, electrophysiology, gastroenterology,
nephrology and renal care or any healthcare specialty your condition requires.
This multidisciplinary, whole-person approach to care at OU Health means
you also benefit from our emphasis on early intervention. By treating
health issues before they become more serious, you can enjoy a longer
and better quality of life. Your OU Health adult congenital heart care
team works with you and your doctors to identify, provide or refer and
help manage any or all of the care and services you need.
With their extensive experience in delivering comprehensive adult congenital
heart care – both now and during the many years before official
recognition of this medical specialty – your OU Health adult congenital
heart care team continues to provide all the services that you need.
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