Congenital Heart

This Congenital Heart Disease channel includes news and new technology to diagnose, treat and manage congenital heart disease. This includes transposed vessels, tetralogy of Fallot, pediatric cardiomyopathy, pulmonary heart valves, pulmonary atresia, patent foramen ovale (PFO),  atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect (VSD). 

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March 12, 2015 — At one time, many children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) suffered from issues that carried ...

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March 11, 2015 —The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has released the first publicly accessible national report of ...

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February 27, 2015 — Four-month-old Jackson Lane has a large scar that looks like a giant zipper down the center of his ...

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February 17, 2015 — Thanks to a two-minute newborn screening test designed to help detect heart defects, a Michigan ...

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February 3, 2015 — Researchers at Okayama University and Okayama University Hospital show that children suffering from a ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of Medtronic’s premarket approval application (PMA) for ...

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December 15, 2014 — Doctors at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa implanted a Melody transcatheter pulmonary ...

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December 8, 2014 — Children’s hospitals in the United States delivering the highest-quality care for children undergoing ...

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December 1, 2014 — Physician-researchers from the Cardiac Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) ...

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November 25, 2014 — Between 70 and 80 percent of patients with the connective tissue condition Marfan syndrome have ...

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3-D heart model, congenital heart defects, cardiovascular surgery
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November 20, 2014 — An experimental 3-D printed model of the heart may help surgeons treat patients born with ...

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Nov. 6, 2014 — The era of fetal intervention has arrived in congenital heart care, but does performing prenatal catheter ...

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October 17, 2014 — Materialise NV has listed its 3-D-printed cardiovascular HeartPrint models as a medical device in U.S ...

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October 16, 2014 — A team of surgeons at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital saved the life of a ...

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October 9, 2014 — Stanford Children’s Health is using cutting-edge videogame technology to get parents the information ...

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