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Running Head: Psychological burden of reoperations after Ross ....Read More

The world at large and the United States’ health care infrastructure face unprecedented challenges in the COVID-19 pandemic, and the congenital heart disease (CHD) community is no exception....Read More

Cite this article: Vijayaraghavan A, Sudhakar A...Read More

Background Previous congenital heart disease estimates came from few data sources...Read More

Surgeons in Italy have made a rare discovery while operating on a 60-year-old woman - an artificial mitral valve that is almost 50 years old, and still working perfectly...Read More

To determine the true prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) at live birth using echocardiographic screening.....Read More

To examine associations between measurements of neurodevelopment and psychosocial health status at age 8 and 16 years....Read More

We are all aware of heart disease in men and women. But childhood heart disease, and its often profound impact on the health and wellbeing of children and their families, is....Read More

Pulmonary hypertension causes pulmonary artery (PA) stiffening, which overloads the right ventricle (RV). Since symptoms of pulmonary hypertension (PH) are exacerbated by exercise,...Read More

NEW ORLEANS — Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) offers patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis survival similar to TAVR patients with tricuspid stenosis,...Read More

Eleven cases of double inlet left ventricle have been presented. Double inlet left ventricle is characterized by the tricuspid valve opening partly (partial type) or completely (complete type) into the....Read More

The history of surgery for transposition of great arteries (TGA) has paralleled the history of cardiac surgery. In fact, it began before the birth of open heart...Read More

Hepatic and renal dysfunction have been observed in survivors of the Fontan procedure, however their incidence and associated factors remain poorly defined....Read More

CCHD occur in around two in every 1,000 newborn babies, and are a leading cause of infant death. Timely diagnosis is crucial for the best outcome for these babies...Read More

It is a clinical paradox that the most benign lesions such as small ventricle septal defect or mild pulmonary stenosis, are more likely to be detected on routine newborn examination...Read More

India has witnessed 66 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate from 1990 to 2015 but most of the new-born deaths — 24 per cent of all — still occur in the country, according to a new UN report...Read More

Low birthrate along with premature births were responsible for over 50 per cent of neonatal deaths in India in 2015, according to a recent Lancet study. Here’s a list of all causes...Read More

According to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association children from socially and economically disadvantaged families and appear more likely to have thicker carotid artery walls...Read More

The research published in Heart Asia and reproduced in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says this gender bias is apparent for all ages of child and for parents living in both rural and urban communities...Read More

Pulse oximetry (POX) plus cardiac auscultation is a reliable method for neonatal congenital heart disease screening, according to a study published online Sept. 22 in Pediatrics...Read More

The eighth edition of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) World Giving Index 2017 indicates that global giving has declined across continents with only Africa recording a a positive shift in giving habits...Read More

India still has the largest share of deaths of children under the age of five, new data from the Global Burden of Disease (2016), published early on Friday morning in the medical journal Lancet, shows...Read More

Under Hridayam, the government is partnering with Unicef, Children’s Heartlink USA, and major paediatric cardiac care centres in the public and private sector to facilitate treatment of children with CHD...Read More

Congenital heart patient and Double Gold Medallist (Compulsory and Free), Amonn AL-Mahrouq, stormed to yet another victory during the April 2015 International Inclusive Ice Skating Championships...Read More

On May 8 1975 the Brazilian surgeon Adib Jatene finally achieved the first total correction of TGA - beginning a new era for those born with the condition. They now have a greater than 90% survival rate...Read More

IN 1939, Gross and Hubbard1 began the era of congenital heart surgery when they reported the first successful ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)...Read More

Ground-breaking and internationally recognized medical researcher, surgeon, and professor Robert H. Bartlett, MD today...Read More

When 6-year-old Jack Foley crossed the finish line last month at the Long Beach Kids Triathlon, it was more than an...Read More

7-year-old Lorraine Sweeney came to Boston Children's Hospital with a diagnosis of patent ductus arterioles, a congenital...Read More

In a significant development for Indian patients requiring treatment for structural or congenital heart...Read More

5 heart questions is KEY for babies with congenital heart defects...Read More

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Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect in the world Read More

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Washington D.C. [USA], July 17 (ANI): A new study suggests that children Read More

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Shining a light on the health and wellbeing of young children with heart disease

A study by medical researchers from UNSW Sydney and the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network has shown that Read More

Considering a birth prevalence of congenital heart disease as 9/1000, the estimated number of children born with congenital...Read More

One in 10 babies are born premature and Irie Felkner and her twin brother, Judah Felkner, were two of them.Born 13 weeks prematurely...Read More

Over the past few decades long-term outcomes of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) have dramatically improved,...Read More

This is for patients with significant symptoms. The treatment of all patients in distress begins with the basics. Tachycardia...Read More

Over the past decades, the life expectancy of individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased significantly...Read More

Researchers at the University of Colorado studied pregnant...Read More

Subaortic stenosis(SAS) encompasses a range of the left ventricular outflow tract(LVOT) below the arotic valve (AV) and is considered as.... Read More

Dextro-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) is a lethal congenital heart defect in which the great arteries—the..... Read More