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91´óÉñ Children's heart failure team helps kids play and do all the things they want in life. Our care is team-based and integrated. That's important because kids with <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/heart-failure.html\">heart failure</a> do better when we all work for the same goal.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>As part of award-winning heart centers in <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/delaware-valley-pediatric-cardiac-center.html\">Delaware</a> and <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/florida-pediatric-cardiac-center.html\">Florida</a>, we have vast expertise in treating highly complex heart conditions and cardiomyopathies that can lead to heart failure. Our pediatric heart specialists, surgeons, advanced practice providers, nurses and many others partner for the best possible care.</p>\r\n<p>In fact, we’re a Cardiomyopathy Foundation Accredited Center of Care, which means we offer the highest quality of care available. We’re also part of national and international pediatric heart failure networks where we share our expertise and have access to the latest, most effective treatments.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Many forms of heart failure and cardiomyopathy can be medically managed. Some need an implanted device, like a <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/pacemakers-defibrillators-implanted-devices.html\">pacemaker</a>, and others may need <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/mechanical-circulatory-support.html\">mechanical circulatory support</a> with a ventricular assist device<b>&nbsp;</b>or <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/pediatric-heart-transplant-program.html\">heart transplantation</a>. 91´óÉñ offers the full range of care. Your child gets seamless, highly coordinated treatment from a team dedicated to their very best life.&nbsp;</p>\r\n"}} id=text-e9c13e9fe5 class=cmp-text>

91´óÉñ Children's heart failure team helps kids play and do all the things they want in life. Our care is team-based and integrated. That's important because kids with heart failure do better when we all work for the same goal.Ìý

As part of award-winning heart centers in Delaware and Florida, we have vast expertise in treating highly complex heart conditions and cardiomyopathies that can lead to heart failure. Our pediatric heart specialists, surgeons, advanced practice providers, nurses and many others partner for the best possible care.

In fact, we’re a Cardiomyopathy Foundation Accredited Center of Care, which means we offer the highest quality of care available. We’re also part of national and international pediatric heart failure networks where we share our expertise and have access to the latest, most effective treatments.Ìý

Many forms of heart failure and cardiomyopathy can be medically managed. Some need an implanted device, like a pacemaker, and others may need mechanical circulatory support with a ventricular assist deviceÌýor heart transplantation. 91´óÉñ offers the full range of care. Your child gets seamless, highly coordinated treatment from a team dedicated to their very best life.Ìý

Heart failure, or when the heart doesn’t pump blood like it should, can be caused by complex <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/conditions-treatments/heart-defects.html\">congenital heart diseases</a> (conditions present at birth), genetic conditions and acquired heart diseases (conditions that happen over time), such as <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/myocarditis.html\">myocarditis</a>. <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiomyopathy.html\">Cardiomyopathies</a> involve the heart muscle and have different causes, some leading to heart failure.</p>\r\n<p>We treat children with heart failure or at risk for heart failure in the future. In addition to heart disease, we care for kids with muscular dystrophy, metabolic disorders, genetic syndromes that affect the heart, those who’ve had cancer treatment, and many others. Highlights of our care include:</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><b>Advanced <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/diagnosticcardio.html\">cardiac imaging</a> using 3D technologies</b>, like heart CT, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), electrocardiography (EKG), echocardiography and others</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiac-exercise-program.html\">Exercise stress tests</a> </b>to asses heart and lung function</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiac-catheterization.html\">Cardiac catheterization</a> and <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/electrophysiology-arrhythmia-program.html\">electrophysiology</a> procedures</b> that use tiny tubes inserted into blood vessels to detect and/or treat conditions causing heart failure</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/nutrition.html\">Nutrition</a> assessment and counseling</b> to help with feeding, eating healthy and managing fluids</li>\r\n<li><b>Medicines</b> to help the heart pump better and reduce fluid buildup</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiac-rehabilitation-and-fitness.html\">Cardiac rehabilitation</a>&nbsp;programs </b>with medically supervised therapies to prevent and manage heart failure symptoms</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiac-psychology.html\">Cardiac psychology</a> services</b> to help your family from diagnosis and beyond</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/pacemakers-defibrillators-implanted-devices.html\">Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD)</a></b>, or devices inserted in the chest and belly to improve heartbeat and pumping action</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/pediatric-heart-surgery.html\">Cardiothoracic surgery</a></b> to repair problems that cause heart failure&nbsp;</li>\r\n<li><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/advanced-life-support.html\"><b>Advanced life support</b>&nbsp;</a>with equipment that take over the heart’s pumping action, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and ventricular assist devices (VADs)</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/cardiac-critical-care.html\">Cardiac critical care</a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/inpatient-heart-care.html\">inpatient heart care</a>&nbsp;</b>specific to the needs of kids with complex heart conditions</li>\r\n<li><b><a href=\"/content/nemours/us/en/services/pediatric-heart-transplant-program.html\">Heart transplant</a> surgery </b>available in Delaware</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n"}} id=text-942e565d0b class=cmp-text>

Heart failure, or when the heart doesn’t pump blood like it should, can be caused by complex congenital heart diseases (conditions present at birth), genetic conditions and acquired heart diseases (conditions that happen over time), such as myocarditis. Cardiomyopathies involve the heart muscle and have different causes, some leading to heart failure.

We treat children with heart failure or at risk for heart failure in the future. In addition to heart disease, we care for kids with muscular dystrophy, metabolic disorders, genetic syndromes that affect the heart, those who’ve had cancer treatment, and many others. Highlights of our care include:

• Advanced cardiac imaging using 3D technologies, like heart CT, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), electrocardiography (EKG), echocardiography and others
• Exercise stress tests to asses heart and lung function
• Cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology procedures that use tiny tubes inserted into blood vessels to detect and/or treat conditions causing heart failure
• Nutrition assessment and counseling to help with feeding, eating healthy and managing fluids
• Medicines to help the heart pump better and reduce fluid buildup
• Cardiac rehabilitationÌýprograms with medically supervised therapies to prevent and manage heart failure symptoms
• Cardiac psychology services to help your family from diagnosis and beyond
• Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), or devices inserted in the chest and belly to improve heartbeat and pumping action
• Cardiothoracic surgery to repair problems that cause heart failureÌý
• Advanced life supportÌýwith equipment that take over the heart’s pumping action, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and ventricular assist devices (VADs)
• Cardiac critical careÌýand inpatient heart careÌýspecific to the needs of kids with complex heart conditions
• Heart transplant surgery available in Delaware