Pediatric Heart Center

All of our patients are managed by a multidisciplinary team of specialists in cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, echocardiography, hemodynamics, electrophysiology, and pediatric cardiovascular intensive care, as well as nursing, psychology, and social work staff.

The cases that will be treated surgically and those that can be treated with interventional techniques are analyzed and discussed in a multidisciplinary medical/surgical session to offer the patient the best possible treatment.

At the PHC we care for patients with all kinds of congenital heart diseases. We have maintained a zero mortality rate on the simplest and most common diseases, such as Ventricular Septal Defect, Atrial Septal Defect, and Patent Ductus Arteriosus, with a very low morbidity (complications) rate and very short hospital stays, which has allowed costs to be significantly reduced.

For more complex heart diseases such as complete AV canal, transposition of the great vessels, correction of aortic arch hypoplasia, or the Glenn and Fontan procedures for the management of univentricular heart, it has also been possible to maintain very low mortality and results superior to those of any other unit in the country. Finally, for more complex heart diseases, such as left ventricular hypoplasia and other forms of univentricular heart, treated with surgeries such as the Norwood procedure or the Damus/Kaye/Stansel procedure, and for other very complex heart diseases treated in the neonatal stage, the multidisciplinary group at the ABC-Kardias Pediatric Heart Center has been the only one in the country with consistently favorable results.

The ABC-Kardias Pediatric Heart Center offers its patients cutting-edge facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology:

• Five intensive care beds
• Four intermediate care beds
• Exclusive operating room for pediatric cardiac surgery
• Exclusive waiting room for family members of patients who had surgery
• Hemodynamics and electrophysiology room
• Specialized and equipped offices for the diagnosis and care of heart diseases in pediatric patients.

It is fundamental to create units capable of caring for a high number of patients annually to achieve excellence in patient care in highly specialized and complex areas of medicine, such as pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery. This allows the group of doctors, nursing staff, and other health professionals involved in patient care to develop the necessary and optimal experience and knowledge.
This can hardly be achieved in the private sector, because the percentage of the population that has access to insurance is relatively low, and consequently the number of surgeries performed is small.

Therefore, the majority of the population in Mexico that needs high specialty care, such as pediatric cardiology, is treated in public hospitals, whose care quality is limited. In our program based at ABC Medical Center Observatorio Campus, we serve around 100 patients per year, a rate higher than that of any other private hospital, with very high-quality standards, thanks to the alliance with public hospitals and with the support of Kardias AC. This has allowed the team to have vast experience and manage to maintain a very low mortality rate, comparable to that of the best heart centers in the world.

Since its creation, the Program established an academic alliance with the Texas Children's Hospital, currently listed as the best high specialty center in pediatric cardiology in the United States, to achieve the highest standards in the quality of patient care.

This alliance has allowed us to establish joint visits in the cardiovascular intensive care unit and discussion of management strategies for the most complex cases, through a telemedicine system, in addition to establishing a continuous training program for the multidisciplinary team abroad.