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Sepsis, an infection of the blood, can quickly overwhelm the body's defenses and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone. Premature newborns and people [...]

Three separate heart defects share a common defect at the molecular level, according to a study by members of the Center for Molecular and Human Genetics. Aortic Valve Stenosis (AVS), [...]

A breakthrough new procedure may improve quality of life for children and adults with a common type of congenital heart defect that interferes with the body's ability to oxygenate blood [...]

Thanks to progress in treatments and surgical techniques, about 30,000 children born with heart defects now reach adulthood every year in the United States. As a result, the number of [...]

Like most people, you probably think that strokes only happen in adults — especially older adults. But kids can have strokes, too. Although they're less common in kids, strokes occur [...]

Indiana University cardiothoracic surgeon Mark Rodefeld believes he's making steady progress in the development of a life saving device for the "sickest, most complicated"—and seemingly most fragile—patients he cares for [...]

Chloe has had feeding issues since she was born. At our first GI appointment (way back when), the doctor mentioned the Vagus Nerve. He said this nerve is connected to [...]

Congenital heart defects account for five times more deaths annually than all childhood cancers combined. Alison Marsden, an assistant mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at the University of California at [...]

In 1981 the Food and Drug Administration approved prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) for use in neonates with congenital heart defects (CHDs). PGE1 dilates the ductus arteriosus, which can provide pulmonary or [...]

Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. This technique was [...]