The Children's Heart Center Vienna combines knowledge and expertise from various specialist disciplines.
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The Pediatric Heart Center Vienna stands for the individual care of children and adolescents with congenital heart defects as well as acquired and genetic heart diseases. To ensure the best possible treatment for each individual patient, an experienced team of physicians from various disciplines is available around the clock. The multidisciplinary cooperation of pediatric cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists and intensive care specialists enables first-class care through the implementation of innovative and optimized therapy concepts.
The comprehensive consultation of parents is a special concern of ours - also of parents whose children are already diagnosed with a heart defect during pregnancy. This enables us to plan the subsequent therapy in close cooperation with the treating gynecologist even before the birth.
Latest news
HTX seminar as part of the AG meeting
We are pleased to announce a special seminar - the Children's Heart Center Vienna is organizing a seminar on 24.4.2025 at 13:30 as part of the spring conference of the Working Group for Pediatric Cardiology in Vienna on one of our major focal points - heart transplantation in children. The seminar is aimed at all pediatricians who care for children with heart transplants both in hospital and in private practice, from tertiary centers to pediatric practices! The venue is the MedUni Vienna campus - lecture hall 1B (Borschkegasse 4 - 1090 Vienna). We are looking forward to an exciting event - please register via email to sophie.gumpelmair@meduniwien.ac.at!
Further information can be found HERE.
Generous donation
Almost six years ago, Mrs. Strobl came to the Children's Heart Center Vienna with her newborn baby girl in an acutely endangered condition. A severe congenital heart defect was found to be the cause and the child was first quickly stabilized by a cardiac catheter intervention and then successfully operated on by our paediatric cardiac surgeons! Since then, the little patient has been doing excellently and gives us great pleasure at every outpatient check-up!
Mrs. Strobl has now collected money on the occasion of her 40th birthday and presented our director Prof. Ina Michel-Behnke with a generous donation for our heart children! On behalf of all our patients, we would like to express our heartfelt thanks!
Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Andreas Hanslik appointed 2nd Deputy Head of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology.
Prof. Hanslik has worked in the department for many years, specializing in the clinical and academic fields of paediatric heart failure and echocardiography. He is also the senior physician responsible for training, both as a mentor and in the design of the pediatric cardiology curriculum. He is also involved in the training of nursing staff and students.
We are delighted about his appointment as 2nd Deputy Head of Department, which he will perform alongside the proven role of Dr. Kitzmüller as 1st Deputy Head.
Excellence in interventional cardiology - The Gerd Hausdorf Lectureship Award for Prof. Dr. Ina Michel-Behnke
We are pleased to announce the awarding of the Prize for Excellence in Interventional Cardiology. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding achievements and innovations in the treatment of heart disease in children. It is awarded by the Interventional Cardiology Working Group of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC).
You can find out more HERE.
New to the team
The team at the Children's Heart Center Vienna warmly welcomes: Dr. Peter Murin, new
Head of the Pediatric Heart Surgery Section at MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Zimpfer, himself head of the pediatric cardiac surgery program for many years
program and now Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, has brought his
to Vienna and put him in charge of the cardiac surgery program for children with congenital heart disease.
care of children with congenital heart defects.
You can find out more HERE.
Dr Julian Heno receives this year's poster award of the AEPC Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Working Group
The Pediatric Heart Transplantation research group at our Children's Heart Center was awarded a poster prize by the Working Group on Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at this year's meeting of the European Association of Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC) in Porto. The research work deals with the potential use of the torque teno virus, which is detectable in almost all people and has no disease value. In future, the viral load could serve as a helpful marker for controlling immunosuppressive medication.
The link to the AEPC report can be found HERE.
