Congenital Heart Disease Unit

A congenital heart disease is a heart defect that began during the patient's gestation in the womb.

Heart defects are the most common congenital diseases.

A coordinated, regulated approach by various specialists can detect cases early on, and make treatment more likely to succeed.

Sanitas offers its policyholders a multidisciplinary team of specialists and the latest technology for early diagnosis and treatment of these types of heart disease.

This multidisciplinary team consists cardiovascular surgeons, paediatric cardiologists, anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, paediatricians, neonatologists and nurses.

The comprehensive congenital heart disease programme s:

• Foetal cardiac evaluations for pregnant women.
• Studies and treatments for newborns, infants and children.
• Urgent on-site calls by expert cardiologists for evaluating and diagnosing newborns in other hospitals.
• Diagnostic tests and all types of haemodynamic and therapeutic processes in closed and open heart surgery at the Hospital Universitario Sanitas La Zarzuela, a leading private wellness centre at the forefront of the treatment of congenital heart disease.

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