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Complications of the heart at birth are a frightening experience for new parents. In nearly one percent of all births, children are born with congenital defects of the heart that [...]

NMT Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: NMTI), an advanced medical technology company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary implant technologies that allow interventional cardiologists to treat structural heart disease through minimally [...]

The brains of full-term infants with congenital heart disease appear more similar to those of premature newborns than to the brains of normal term infants, a study conducted by researchers [...]

Cytogenetic testing examines the number and structure of a person’s chromosomes. Chromosomes are tightly bundled packages of DNA present in almost every cell in our bodies. Most people have 46 [...]

TET spells occur most often in children who have a congenital heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot. Children with Tetralogy of Fallot have a combination of heart problems. A ventricular [...]

Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure — yet it may not be the [...]

Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, just performed the first implant of a CardioGraft allograft cardiac patch product with MatrACELL decellularization technology, a methodology that safely removes donor cells [...]

Until now, the reasons why some children are born with holes in their hearts, or faulty heart valves, have eluded doctors and scientists. Findings published online in the prestigious PNAS [...]

My Chloe was recently sedated for an MRI. Before any images were taken, the anesthesiologist tried to stabilize Chloe's breathing for 45 minutes and was unsuccessful. She decided to intubate [...]

Before prescribing stimulants, like Ritalin, for children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), doctors are now being advised to order an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) to make sure that [...]