During the two-year Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, you are exposed to the full spectrum of disease. This includes new adult diagnoses and complex patients with palliated or repaired congenital heart disease across the full spectrum. Mayo Clinic offers expertise in diagnostic testing and interventional procedures needed to care for these patients. You work closely with colleagues across disciplines to provide coordinated care.

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic at Mayo Clinic is one of the largest in the country. It has a long history of caring for patients with simple, moderate, and complex congenital heart disease. Many of the first open-heart operations for congenital heart disease were performed at Mayo Clinic in the 1950s and 1960s. Mayo Clinic has played a prominent role in the management of patients with complex congenital lesions.

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic sees patients daily, with more than 2,000 outpatients seen annually. The congenital echo laboratory performs more than 2,000 adult congenital transthoracic echocardiograms each year. Mayo Clinic has surgical expertise in caring for adults with congenital heart disease and performs about 200 operations each year. These include complex redo and hybrid procedures.

The congenital catheterization laboratory performs about 150 adult congenital catheterizations yearly, including complex diagnostic hemodynamic studies. Interventional procedures include transcatheter valve insertion, device closure of septal defects, and stent implantation for coarctation or pulmonary artery abnormalities.

Mayo Clinic’s adult congenital heart disease specialists collaborate with experts in pediatric cardiology, congenital cardiac surgery, and interventional cardiology. They also partner with specialists in electrophysiology, pulmonary hypertension, advanced heart failure and transplant, cardiac radiology, and anesthesia. Additional collaboration includes hepatology, high-risk obstetrics, and medical genetics to provide state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic options.

Accreditation

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellowship is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Certification

After successfully completing the program, you are eligible to take the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Certification Exam offered by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Program history

The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, began in 1991. We anticipate that one trainee will complete this two-year program annually.