The division provides state-of-the-art diagnostic and management support
of infants, children and young adults with both congenital and acquired
heart disease.
Clinical Services
- Congenital heart disease
- Acquired heart disease (e.g., cardiomyopathies, Kawasaki disease,
etc.)
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Adolescent Cardiology
- Blood lipid disorders
Diagnostic Services
- Evaluation and managemnt of the cyanotic newborn
- Comprehensive assessment of murmurs
- Surgical correction of congenital heart lesions
- Cardiac transplantation
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
- Interventional catheterization (balloon angioplasty, intravascular
stents, coil occlusion)
- Radiofrequency ablation of arrhythmias
- Fetal echocardiography
- Transthoracic echocardiography
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- ECG interpretation
- Pacemaker management
- Arrhythmia evaluation and management
- Exercise testing
- Review of locally performed echocardiograms
- Remote echocardiographic evaluation using telemedicine
- Interpretation of locally performed ECGs and Holters
- Evaluation and management of families with premature coronary heart
disease
Research Activities
- Role of cholesterol and blood presure as coronary risk factors
- Dietary intervention to limit the development of coronary artery disease
- Coronary calcification as visualized by computed tomography
- Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy
- Genetic basis of
congenital heart disease
- Development changes in cardiac metabolism
- Impact of telemedicine on the management of children with congenital
heart disease
- Carotid intimal-medial thickness
- Brachial artery vasodilation capacity
- Multicenter drug trials
Cardiology Faculty
- Thomas Scholz, MD, Director
- Michael Artman, MD, Professor and Head
- Dianne Atkins, MD
- Heather Bartlett, MD
- Abhay Divekar, MD
- R. Erik Edens, MD, PhD
- Ian Law, MD
- Larry T. Mahoney, MD
- Jill Morriss, MD
- Ben Pardini, PhD, MPAS
- Vickie Pyevich, MD
- Benjamin Reinking, MD
- Brian C. Schutte, PhD
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Appointments and questions:
M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
319-356-2229
Patient Self Referrals
Emergencies, evenings, and weekends:
319-356-1616
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