About

The Irish Congenital Heart Centre at Blackrock Clinic

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Providing a dedicated over-arching service to adults living with congenital heart disease in Ireland

The Irish Congenital Heart Centre provides a dedicated over-arching service to adults living with congenital heart disease in Ireland. Our dedicated team consists of a congenital heart medical doctor, a congenital heart interventionist, a congenital heart surgeon and a heart rhythm specialist.

Our areas of expertise include adult congenital heart disease, cardiac rhythm management, structural and congenital intervention, congenital cardiothoracic surgery, aortopathy and cardiac maternity. We always strive for excellence and believe in high quality, evidence guided, patient-focused care.

We work closely with our colleagues in Blackrock Clinic to provide the full range of services that a patient with congenital heart disease might need. These include medical follow up/surveillance, imaging (both echo and cardiac MRI), rhythm management, cardiac intervention and congenital heart surgery.

What is congenital heart disease?

Congenital heart disease is a problem with the heart’s structure that is present from birth. This may be a simple hole in the heart or a very complex structural defect that effects more than one part of the heart.

One in one hundred people is born with a structural abnormality of their heart. Most of these people now survive into adulthood. Adults with congenital heart disease need lifelong cardiology surveillance in order to improve their survival and quality of life.

Our Team

Meet the Consultants at the Irish Congenital Heart Clinic