Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy Program
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Helping Kids Be Kids
Nemours Children's heart failure team helps kids play and do all the things they want in life. Our care is team-based and integrated. That's important because kids with heart failure do better when we all work for the same goal.
As part of award-winning heart centers in Delaware and Florida, we have vast expertise in treating highly complex heart conditions and cardiomyopathies that can lead to heart failure. Our pediatric heart specialists, surgeons, advanced practice providers, nurses and many others partner for the best possible care.
In fact, we’re a Cardiomyopathy Foundation Accredited Center of Care, which means we offer the highest quality of care available. We’re also part of national and international pediatric heart failure networks where we share our expertise and have access to the latest, most effective treatments.
Many forms of heart failure and cardiomyopathy can be medically managed. Some need an implanted device, like a pacemaker, and others may need mechanical circulatory support with a ventricular assist device or heart transplantation. Nemours offers the full range of care. Your child gets seamless, highly coordinated treatment from a team dedicated to their very best life.
Two Leading Pediatric Heart Centers
Our heart centers offer highly advanced, integrated care just for kids and young adults with congenital heart disease. Learn about our focused programs, innovative research and exceptional outcomes.
Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is when the heart doesn’t pump blood well enough to meet the body’s needs. Learn more from the experts at Nemours KidsHealth®.
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle and one of many causes of heart failure. See how it’s diagnosed and treated.
What is a ventricular assist device? Find out what it is and how it’s used in treating heart failure in children.
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Your Child’s, and Family’s, Best Possible Life
We personalize our care to meet your family’s specific needs. Whether we’re preparing for transplant, recovering from treatment or preventing decline in heart function, your child’s quality of life is our focus.
We offer cardiovascular genetics testing and counseling for children with certain types of cardiomyopathies.
Nemours is involved in research and clinical trials to further our understanding of heart disease and how best to prevent and treat it. We share what we know so all kids benefit.
We make life a little easier by scheduling visits on the same day and meeting you at locations that may be closer to home.
Nemours contributes to national and international efforts that set the standard of heart failure care for kids everywhere.
Your Child’s, and Family’s, Best Possible Life
We personalize our care to meet your family’s specific needs. Whether we’re preparing for transplant, recovering from treatment or preventing decline in heart function, your child’s quality of life is our focus.
We offer everything your child may need, in one place.
If your child needs a heart transplant in Delaware, they’ll have the same team, who knows their condition, following their care through transplant and beyond.
We participate in research and clinical trials, to further our understanding of heart disease and how best to prevent and treat it. We share what we know so all kids benefit.
We make life a little easier by scheduling visits on the same day and meeting you at locations that may be closer to home.
Our team contributes to national and international efforts that set the standard of heart failure care for kids everywhere.
Meet the Team
Nemours heart failure and cardiomyopathy teams are experienced and focused on your child's healthiest future. Meet them now.
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Carissa M. Baker-Smith, MD, MPH
Cardiology Director, Preventive Cardiology Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology at Thomas Jefferson UniversityPrimary Office
Wilmington, DE -
Claude Anthony Beaty Jr., MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Site Director, Temple Thoracic Residency Program, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson UniversityPrimary Office
Wilmington, DE -
Christopher D. Derby, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Surgical Director Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Mechanical Circulatory SupportPrimary Office
Wilmington, DE -
Aryaz Sheybani, MD
Cardiology Medical Director, Heart Transplant ProgramPrimary Office
Wilmington, DE
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Katherine T. Braley, MD
Cardiology Medical Director, Fetal Heart Program, Director of Fetal EchocardiographyPrimary Office
Orlando, FL
