Gayatri A. Acharya, MD: Greetings. I'm Dr Gayatri Acharya, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. During today's recording, we'll be discussing living into adulthood with congenital heart disease in the ...

Adults with congenital heart defects were more likely to experience an abnormal, irregular heartbeat, finds a new study. Almost 1 in 5 adults with congenital heart disease living in Israel had or ...

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 ...

The collective story of being born with a heart condition is one of hope, perseverance and the strength of the human spirit. It’s a success story of modern medicine: medical advances in the second ...

When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Discovering the link between congenital heart disease and kidney problems could improve outcomes for patients with the ...

UCLA-led research finds that among adult congenital heart disease (CHD) transplant recipients, single-ventricle physiology correlated with higher short-term mortality. But 10-year conditional survival ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Heart failure is a potentially urgent health concern for young adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) that is often overlooked and undertreated, even as hospitalizations for ...

Young adults with congenital heart disease may be able to guide youth with similar conditions into adult care in a way that ...

The Division of Congenital Heart Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital offers every procedure available for the treatment of congenital heart disease and defects. As a part of Texas Children’s Heart ...

A woman who received life-saving surgery has backed calls for more donations of heart valves for vital surgeries. NHS Blood ...

The term Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) encompasses a range of structural cardiac anomalies that persist into adulthood, often as a consequence of improvements in paediatric diagnostics and ...