In cases of mild congenital heart defects, more prenatal visits are associated with greater likelihood of appropriate ...

For many people born with a heart defect, treatment may not be necessary until adulthood. As your heart grows, you might need surgeries, medications, and treatments. People often think of congenital ...

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 ...

Ductal-dependent congenital heart disease involves a problem with the arteries that carry blood out of the heart. It’s usually discovered soon after birth, but medications and treatments can help ...

New testing in maternal hyperoxia — giving extra oxygen to pregnant people — shows that prenatal interventions might yield ...

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

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 ...

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.

While we already have an understanding of the trajectories of babies who undergo different surgical/interventional procedures ...

Heart disease continues to stand as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States. Coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease in the U.S., was responsible for the deaths of nearly ...

Isabella “Bella” Bonilla returned home on July 21 after spending 15 months & 15 days hospitalized at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital awaiting a heart transplant.