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More than 545,000 babies in the United States are born prematurely each year. That's nearly 1 in 8 babies who may face a lifetime of health challenges, if they survive. [...]

New findings give infants a greater window of opportunity, better survival odds. A study showing that infants under one year of age can accept heart transplants from donors of different [...]

WHAT IS ECMO?ECMO stands for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, a complex therapy that involves a pump that circulates blood through an artificial lung back into the bloodstream of a very ill [...]

A newly funded study is set to determine whether waiting two minutes to clamp a newborn’s umbilical cord after delivery could improve how well he or she recovers from corrective [...]

Plastic bronchitis is characterized by marked obstruction of the large airways by bronchial casts. Bronchial casts take the shape of the bronchi of a lobe or a lung. These casts [...]

Cell biologist Douglas Cowan, PhD, and his team have engineered tissue capable of passing electrical signals from the upper to the lower chambers of the heart in rats, potentially taking [...]

Medicines are often needed to treat congenital heart defects until the defect can be repaired or corrected. Some complex acyanotic heart defects and most cyanotic heart defects require ongoing treatment [...]

The serious form of congenital heart disease, known as AV heart block, develops when a certain type of antibody is transferred from the mother to the fetus during pregnancy. The [...]

IntroductionThe care of infants with congenital cardiac defects has considerably advanced. Management of CHD emphasizes early complete repair before the heart and the patient deleteriously adapt to the abnormal physiology. [...]

I do not have first-hand experience with this test, however I recently read about a few pediatric CHD patients being given this test. I'm not sure how accurate or common [...]