


The Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center is an integrated program of doctors, nurses and other health
care professionals working together to offer comprehensive, patient centered care to the fetus, infant, child and
adolescent with heart disease, and to the adult with congenital
heart disease.
Our surgery and interventional cardiology programs for congenital heart disease are among the most expert in
the country, specializing in repairing the hearts of infants with the most complex problems, such as hypoplastic
left heart syndrome. Experts at the center are also world-renowned for their skill in using echocardiography and
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose and assist in the management of patients with heart defects,
both before and
after birth.
UCSF is among the world's leading research institutions in health science, with roughly 3,000 clinical trials in progress.