Pediatric Heart Care
OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is a national leader in diagnosing and treating children’s heart conditions, from the common to the complex. We offer services you won’t find anywhere else between Seattle and San Francisco, including a cardiac ICU.
We offer:
- World-class heart specialists who work in teams and around the clock.
- Innovative treatments for even the most complex heart conditions.
- Oregon’s most experienced catheterization providers.
- State-of-the-art technology, including 3D imaging and home monitoring.
- A dedicated cardiac intensive care team in our PICU.
- Highly skilled surgeons who specialize in treating congenital heart disease.
- Expert care at every step for women expecting a baby with a heart condition.
- An ECMO (heart and lung support in the intensive care unit) Center of Excellence.
- Oregon’s first accredited and busiest pediatric echocardiography lab.
Learn more
- Find a diagnosis: A-C
- Acquired heart condition
- Alagille syndrome
- Anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery
- Anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stenosis
- Arrhythmia
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial flutter
- Atrial septal defect
- Atrioventricular septal defect
- Bicuspid aortic valve
- Bradycardia
- Cardiomyopathy
- CHARGE syndrome
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Complete heart block
- Congenital heart defect
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- Find a diagnosis: D-L
- DiGeorge syndrome (22q11.2 deletion syndrome)
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Double outlet right ventricle
- Down syndrome (Trisomy 21)
- Ebstein's anomaly
- Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
- Endocarditis
- Genetic syndrome
- Heart failure
- Holt-Oram syndrome
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Interrupted aortic arch (see coarctation of the aorta)
- Kabuki syndrome
- Kawasaki disease
- Loeys-Dietz syndrome
- Find a diagnosis: M-R
- Marfan syndrome
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Mitral valve regurgitation
- Mitral valve stenosis
- Myocarditis
- Noonan syndrome
- Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Patent foramen ovale
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral pulmonary stenosis
- Premature atrial contractions
- Premature ventricular contractions
- Pulmonary atresia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary stenosis
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Risk of sudden cardiac death
- Find a diagnosis: S-W
- Sick sinus syndrome
- Single ventricle heart disease
- Sinus bradycardia
- Sinus tachycardia
- Supraventricular tachycardia
- Tachycardia
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
- Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
- Truncus arteriosus
- Turner syndrome
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome)
- VACTERL association
- Vascular ring
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular septal defect
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Williams syndrome
- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (see supraventricular tachycardia)
- Find a treatment, program or service:
- Adult congenital heart disease program
- Aortopathy program
- Cardiomyopathy program
- Diagnostic tests, including advanced cardiovascular imaging
- Electrophysiology and heart rhythm program
- Fetal heart care program (care for expectant moms, developing babies and newbor…
- Fetal Link program (monitoring from fetal diagnosis to baby’s first birthday)
- Genetic counseling and testing
- Growing and Thriving with CHD (brain development monitoring and support for chi…
- Heart catheterization program
- Heart failure and transplant care
- Heart rehabilitation program
- Heart screening
- Heart surgery
- Intensive care
- Lipid disorders program
- Pulmonary hypertension program
- Resources for patients and families
- Single ventricle program
- Transitioning to adult care
Complete care
No other hospital in Oregon and southwest Washington offers our level of expertise, technology and team-based programs for children’s heart conditions. You’ll find:
- A large team of internationally recognized providers. Our specialists have a high degree of specialization and connections around the world.
- Advanced tests, such as 3D imaging of your child’s heart.
- Two children’s heart surgeons who often operate together for the best results.
- Heart catheterization experts who can treat some heart defects without surgery.
- Remote monitoring so babies with single ventricle heart disease can safely be cared for at home between surgeries.
- The only children’s heart rehabilitation program in the Northwest.
- Fetal heart care specialists who will care for you and your baby before and after delivery.
- Ongoing care to support your child’s healthy brain development.
- Lifelong care in cooperation with OHSU’s adult congenital heart disease program, the only one of its kind in Oregon.
- A lipid program to care for children with high cholesterol.
- Support services such as child life specialists to ease your family’s time in the hospital.
Our teams also offer expertise in complex conditions, including:
- Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmia)
- Thick, weak or enlarged hearts (cardiomyopathy)
- Heart failure, when a heart isn’t pumping the way it should
- Babies born with one pumping chamber (single ventricle defects)
- High blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension)
- Turner syndrome, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome), 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome and other genetic conditions.
What makes our program different
- We have the region’s largest and most experienced team of children’s heart experts.
- Our heart team cares for more than 5,000 children a year.
- We are the region’s No. 1 referral center for children’s heart disease.
- Doernbecher holds Level 1 certification in both surgery and trauma from the American College of Surgeons.
- Doernbecher’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the only one on the West Coast with a gold Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
- The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization has recognized us as an ECMO Center of Excellence since 2013.
- Our team improves children’s heart care by leading national research, setting high standards and sharing results.
Quality and outcomes
We’re proud of our surgery results and dedication to quality. We take part in independent quality reviews, and we voluntarily share surgical outcomes.
Research and innovation
As part of Oregon’s only academic health center, we bring the latest breakthroughs to your child’s care.
Partnerships: We work with leading organizations to explore new ways to identify and treat heart problems in children. They include:
- The Western Society of Pediatric Cardiology
- The American Society of Echocardiography
- The American Heart Association
- The American College of Cardiology
- The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPCQIC)
- The Marfan Foundation
- SADS (sudden arrhythmia death syndromes) Foundation
- The Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES)
- The Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Registries: We offer families the chance to join national and international research registries. Voluntarily sharing information helps researchers see patterns and make discoveries. Families who take part learn about the newest advances.
Research: Our doctors are at the forefront of discovery and have published hundreds of scientific papers. Our research has helped us:
- Create 3D models of patients’ hearts, helping us diagnose complex conditions and plan surgeries.
- Offer a procedure that reduces complications after certain valve replacement surgeries. The technique, the Reinforced Ross Procedure, was first described at OHSU.
- Use MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans to detect microscopic scars in heart muscle.
- Identify children with heart-muscle disease who are at risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.
- Better understand the genetic signs of connective tissue disorders, perhaps leading to blood tests to diagnose aortic disease and Marfan syndrome.
For families
Call 503-346-0640 to:
- Request an appointment.
- Seek a second opinion.
- Ask questions.
Locations
Parking is free for patients and their visitors.
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
700 S.W. Campus Drive
Portland, OR 97239
Map and directions
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Refer a patient
- Refer your patient to OHSU Doernbecher.
- Call 503-346-0644 to seek provider-to-provider advice.
Fellowships
Learn about our Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Training Program.
‘I’ve never felt so safe’
See the parents of Sophia Kirkwood explain how Doernbecher repaired a rare and complicated heart defect so their daughter can thrive.
‘Full of life and love’
Meet Foxy Kusin, a spirited toddler with Marfan syndrome. Foxy receives care for a related heart condition from our team at Doernbecher.
Living her best life
Melissa Nelson was born with a heart defect. Discover how our unique-in-Oregon program is helping her manage her health as an adult.
Stay informed
News: Read about research breakthroughs, patient care and many other topics on the OHSU News site.