With the tagline “Growing up with you”, the Congenital and Structural Heart Disease (CHD) Programme offers CHD patients at NUHCS a continuum of care throughout their lifetime.
Additionally, under the care of a multi-disciplinary team of specialists, parents with a history of CHD are offered specialised care from before pregnancy till after their child is born. These include:
- Pre-natal testing
- Genetic counselling
- Ante-natal screening and imaging during pregnancy
- Screening of their newborns for CHD
The programme also manages patients with acquired structural heart disease such as valvular heart disease.
This programme includes the diagnosis and management of:
- Congenital heart disease in children
- Adults with congenital heart disease
- Complications of congenital heart disease such as:
- Heart arrhythmia
- Heart failure
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Acquired valve disease/structural heart disease
The treatments offered include:
- Congenital heart disease correction surgeries
- Specialised percutaneous implantation of devices in the heart to seal congenital defects without the need for an open-heart surgery
Specialised care for complications arising from CHD such as:
- Heart arrhythmia
- Heart failure
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- Mitraclip mitral valve repair
- Left atrial appendage closure
- Paravalvular leak closure
- Percutaneous mitral Valvuloplasty
