Adult Congenital Heart Program
At Children’s Mercy, the medical providers in our Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program are experts at treating and monitoring both children and adults with CHD. They also specialize in helping teens transition smoothly from child to adult care of congenital heart defects.
Our team of experts treats children and adults with all forms of congenital heart disease. We specialize in the most complex cases, including:
- Septal defects, including:
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Congenital valve defects
- Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
- Cyanotic defects
- Ebstein’s anomaly
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- Fontan
- Heterotaxy syndrome
- Mitral valve defects
- Pregnancy and congenital heart disease
- Pulmonary atresia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary valve defects
- Single ventricle physiology
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
- Tricuspid valve defects
- Truncus arteriosus
We partner with Saint Luke’s Hospital and The University of Kansas Medical Center to provide a seamless transition from pediatric to adult care. The specially trained ACHD providers at Children’s Mercy also see patients at both adult hospitals to assist in the transfer of care and follow-up. We are dedicated to the process and the success of people of all ages with CHD.