What is sepsis? Sepsis (SEP-sis) is a serious condition that occurs when your child's body overreacts to an infection. It is also called systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) with infection. [...]
Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular outflow tract [...]
Ebstein's Anomaly is an exceedingly rare heart defect of the tricuspid valve. Normally, this valve controls blood flow from the right atrium that receives blood returning from the body to [...]
Dr. Hisashi Nikaidoh has received international recognition for the landmark procedure that bears his name following 20 years of successful surgeries. Children diagnosed with the rare triad of Transposition of [...]
Trisomy 18 is also called Edwards syndrome and occurs in about 1 out of every 3000 live births. Unlike Down syndrome, Trisomy 18 is usually fatal, with most of the [...]
What is CHARGE Syndrome? CHARGE syndrome is a recognizable (genetic) pattern of birth defects which occurs in about one in every 9-10,000 births worldwide. It is an extremely complex syndrome, [...]
Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum (PA/IVS) is a rare congenital heart defect. Pulmonary atresia is when the valve that lets blood flow from the lower-right chamber (right ventricle) of [...]
Alagille syndrome is an inherited disorder in which a person has fewer than the normal number of small bile ducts inside the liver. Bile ducts, also called hepatic ducts, are [...]
I was talking with a reporter the other day about routine pregnancy care and the first question she asked me was, “When in pregnancy is it best to make your [...]
Marfan syndrome is a disorder involving the body's connective tissue. Connective tissue has many important functions, including the following: assisting with growth and development of the body's cells, both before [...]
