ATLANTA — Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is celebrating the success of a surgery that closed a hole in the heart of a four-week-old girl. When she arrived at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Baby ...

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

Ghaziabad: A four-year-old child from Sudan, born with a major congenital heart defect, successfully underwent a high-risk ...

ANYANG, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEL Animal Cardiovascular Center, a private 24-hour animal hospital in South Korea, said that its cardiac surgery team has successfully performed the world’s ...

Nearly 40 years ago when Lis Dreizen’s daughter Olivia was born with a congenital heart defect, doctors were grim about her chances to live. “I would cry simply looking at Olivia, and it was very hard ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

The Scale of the ChallengeCongenital heart disease (CHD) represents a pervasive health challenge that transcends borders, affecting approximately eight out of e ...

The outlook for people with pulmonary atresia, a congenital heart defect that blocks blood flow to the lungs, has significantly improved with recent medical advancements. Pulmonary atresia presents a ...