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Study shows that a heart defect may make sleep apnea worse through contributing to oxygen deprivation. People with sleep apnea stop breathing temporarily many times during the night, because of [...]

In-depth doctor's interview with Charles D. Fraser, Jr., M.D., chief of congenital heart surgery at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, talking about the Berlin Heart, a pediatric ventricular assist device.What [...]

Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)Before birth, there is a natural opening between the aorta (the main artery to the body) and the pulmonary artery (the main artery to the lungs) called [...]

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a condition in which the heart does not pump enough blood out to the rest of the body in order to meet the body’s demand [...]

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 [...]

Part of the Fontan operation involves making a tunnel to bring oxygen-poor blood directly from the body into the lungs. The tunnel connects the inferior vena cava to the pulmonary [...]

State Medicaid agencies were billed by hospitals more than $683 million in 2003 for treating children born with heart defects, according to the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [...]

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collaborating with pediatric cardiologists and surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, have developed a tool for virtual surgery that allows heart surgeons [...]

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 [...]

A brain abscess, also known as a cerebral abscess or CNS abscess, is an abscess within the brain tissue caused by inflammation and collection of immune cells and infected material [...]