What is congenital heart disease (CHD)? Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect. Infants with CHD have abnormal structure to their heart which creates abnormal blood flow [...]
Pulmonary Vein Stenosis (PVS) is a condition in which there is an obstruction (blockage) in the blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from the lungs back to the heart. There [...]
Heart disease is the number one killer in the U.S, and congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect around the world. About five million people in the U.S. [...]
Cardiac interventionalists and surgeons at University Clinic in Leuven, Belgium have achieved successful stent implantation and follow-up coarctectomy in premature infants suffering from aortic coarctation. Full findings are published in [...]
Sudden cardiac death in children and adolescents is rare but seems to be more frequent than previously reported. The occurrence of such an event is very devastating. Primary caretakers should [...]
What is Andersen-Tawil syndrome? Anderson-Tawil syndrome is a disorder that causes episodes of muscle weakness (periodic paralysis), changes in heart rhythm (arrhythmia), and developmental abnormalities. The most common changes affecting [...]
Your heart is made of muscle, called the myocardium. The heart muscle, like every other organ or tissue in your body, needs oxygen-rich blood to survive. Blood is supplied to [...]
A Gerbode defect is a very rare congenital anomaly. It is a ventricular septal defect communicating directly between the left ventricle and right atrium. This is anatomically possible because the [...]
Costello syndrome is an exceedingly rare genetics syndrome first reported in 1977 by Dr. Jack Costello, a geneticist in New Zealand. With an estimated 300 people in the world, the [...]
Cardiac cycle is the term referring to all or any of the events related to the flow or blood pressure that occurs from the beginning of one heartbeat to the [...]
