What is a cardiologist’s role in treating coronary artery anomalies? | Boston Children’s Hospital

What is a cardiologist’s role in treating coronary artery anomalies? | Boston Children’s Hospital

What is a cardiologist’s role in treating coronary artery anomalies? | Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston Children’s cardiologist Jane Newburger details how cardiologists work closely with coronary artery anomaly patients through every step of care: diagnosis, during and after non-surgical treatment, and before and after surgery. To learn more about the Coronary Artery Program, please visit: https://www.childrenshospital.org/pro…

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Jane Newburger, MD, MPH
Associate Cardiologist-in-Chief, Department of Cardiology
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0.25 -> The cardiologist has a really big role in coronary care.
4.212 -> We are the front line to whom pediatricians send their patients.
8.883 -> So children come to us when there is a symptom
13.346 -> that could indicate that a child has a coronary problem.
17.475 -> Sometimes children come to us because they had an echocardiogram
23.481 -> or an imaging test
24.816 -> that showed a coronary problem, even though they had no symptoms.
28.653 -> But in both of those instances,
31.156 -> cardiologists are the first ones to see the child and the family.
35.618 -> We are the ones who get the best images to show exactly what
39.789 -> that coronary looks like.
41.541 -> We see whether the
44.377 -> the coronary has any functional importance.
47.964 -> In other words, is there any sign or any
51.801 -> any evidence to suggest that it could pose a risk to the child?
56.306 -> And then together with the family and our surgical colleagues
61.186 -> and a large team, we can make a recommendation to the family
65.815 -> and work with that family to decide whether surgery would be a good idea
71.404 -> to treat that coronary artery, whether surgery really isn't necessary,
75.95 -> or whether there there are pros and cons that need to be weighed together
80.497 -> with the family.
81.956 -> If a child does come for surgery, we follow that child every day
88.046 -> in the hospital, together with the surgeon in a very collaborative model.
92.634 -> And then after surgery occurs.
95.428 -> Cardiologists are the ones who see the patients
98.515 -> regularly just to be sure that they are making a good recovery.
102.727 -> And then over many years, to be sure
105.647 -> that they continue to be very, very well, which is what we expect.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvwkIY_nfr8