Our pediatric cardiovascular genomics program cares for children and their families who have genetic cardiovascular conditions, many of which raise an affected individual’s risk of sudden cardiac death. Our focus is on providing family-centered care and maximizing quality of life for the whole family.
Our team includes pediatric cardiologists, electrophysiologists, surgeons, a nurse practitioner and genetic counselors. We work closely with our colleagues specializing in adult cardiology, cardiac surgery and electrophysiology at Inova Schar Heart and Vascular to ensure seamless coordination of care for patients with inherited cardiovascular conditions and their entire family.
Our team also performs research for many of the conditions listed below with active projects including long QT syndrome in infants, Brugada syndrome, early-onset atrial fibrillation (AFib), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic and dilated cardiomyopathy, and aortopathies.
Services we offer include:
- Genetic counseling and a full spectrum of genetic testing
- Medical management of the conditions listed above
- Heart rhythm procedures including ablation as well as implantable loop recorder, pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation
- Minimally invasive surgical cardiac sympathetic denervation
- Surgical aortic root intervention and comprehensive pre-operative planning
Some or examples of conditions we care for include:
- Genetic heart rhythm disorders and channelopathies
- Long QT syndrome
- Brugada syndrome
- Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT)
- Early-onset AFib
- Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation
- Sudden cardiac death
- Cardiomyopathies
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy
- Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy
- Infiltrative and storage disorders
- Aortopathy and related connective tissue disorders
- Marfan syndrome
- Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
- Loeys-Dietz syndrome
- Vascular Ehlers Danlos syndrome
- Heritable thoracic aortic disease (HTAD)
- Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissection
- Arterial tortuosity syndrome
- Bicuspid aortic valve
- FLNA arteriopathy
- Familial and genetic lipid disorders