Congenital and Structural Heart Disease Programme

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