Pediatric Cardiology

This channel includes news regarding new technologies used in the specialized care for diagnosing and treating children with heart conditions. This includes advanced diagnostics for evaluating and treating pediatric heart conditions such as congenital heart defects, cardiac arrhythmias and acquired heart diseases.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Rady Children’s Appoints Adel Younoszai, MD, as Rady Children’s Hospital Co-Director of the Heart Institute, and Division Chief of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

October 6, 2023 — Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, the largest children’s hospital on the West Coast and one of the ...

October 06, 2023

A discovery of a mutation in the gene ACTA2 has given researchers, led by Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD, with UTHealth Houston, insight into understanding the cause of a rare and progressive problem with arteries in the brain and a cause of strokes in young children, called moyamoya disease.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Researchers Uncover Why a Gene Mutant Causes Young Children to Have Strokes

October 3, 2023 — A discovery of a mutation in the gene ACTA2 has given researchers, led by Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD ...

October 03, 2023

Key presentations will address youth sports, heart issues in Duchenne patients, and neurodevelopmental and psychosocial aspects of congenital heart disease

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Nemours Children’s Health Researchers to Present at World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

August 23, 2023 — Researchers from Nemours Children’s Health will present a range of studies at the World Congress of ...

August 23, 2023

A new American Heart Association science advisory urges clinical care guidelines for youth, and for hospitals, payers and policymakers to help meet the need for best practices in pediatric preventive cardiovascular care

News | Stroke

Survey of CVD Programs Finds More Resources Needed for Heart Disease and Stroke Risk in Youth

August 8, 2023 — More adolescents and teens are developing health conditions that may increase their risk of premature c ...

August 08, 2023

The goal of the new initiative is to build a national effort to diagnose and treat many more children

News | Pediatric Cardiology

A Model for Africa: Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry Announces New Initiative to Become Self-Sufficient in Pediatric Cardiology Surgery

July 7, 2023 — Launched by Mitrelli Group, Menomadin Foundation, Save a Child’s Heart, Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry and ...

July 07, 2023

Novel polymeric valve aims to reduce re-operations and re-interventions

News | Pediatric Cardiology

PECA Labs Achieves Successful First-In-Human Implant of the MASA Valve Pediatric Pulmonary Valved Conduit in U.S. Clinical Trial

June 13, 2023 — PECA Labs, a medical device company reimagining vascular grafts and valves with durable polymeric ...

June 13, 2023

Cardiac photon-counting CT (PCCT) in a 174-day-old male infant with complex congenital heart defect.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Photon-Counting CT Offers Superior Imaging in Babies with Heart Defects

May 24, 2023 — A new advanced form of computed tomography (CT) imaging called photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) ...

May 24, 2023

A heart muscle cell with mutations in the gene that makes the Rotatin protein (bottom) has disorganized muscle fibers (red) compared to healthy heart muscle cell (top).

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Research Identifies New Cause of Heart Failure Condition in Children

May 11, 2023 — In an effort to determine the cause behind a rare condition that causes heart failure in children, Univer ...

May 11, 2023

Researchers have identified specific biomarker patterns in the blood that are unique to severe COVID-19 infection, as well as others unique to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Researchers Identify Unique Biomarker Patterns Identifying MIS-C and Severe COVID in Children

April 24, 2023 — Using powerful sequencing technology, researchers have identified specific biomarker patterns in the ...

April 24, 2023

Researchers have found that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has improved breast cancer screening performance in community practice and identifies more invasive cancers, compared to digital mammography. In addition, radiologists’ interpretive performance improved with DBT

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Wireless Pacemakers May be Safe, Effective for Children with Irregular Heart Rhythms

April 13, 2023 — Wireless or leadless pacemakers, commonly implanted in adults, may be a safe and effective short-term ...

April 13, 2023

The need for appropriate diagnosis, treatment and reduction of lifestyle risk factors for high blood pressure in youth were outlined in a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published March 30 in the Association’s Hypertension journal.

News | Hypertension

Children with High Blood Pressure in Spotlight with AHA Journal Scientific Statement

April 4, 2023 — The need for appropriate diagnosis, treatment and reduction of lifestyle risk factors for high blood ...

April 04, 2023

They have discovered the cellular mechanism underlying this cardiovascular anomaly that is very common among people

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Scientists of the University of Malaga Found the Origin of Congenital Coronary Fistulae

March 31, 2023 — Scientists of the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Malaga have discovered the cellular ...

March 31, 2023

ParameterZ by Rady Children’s Hospital, a no-cost standard deviation (z-score) calculator which has expanded its capabilities to cardiac MRI, is now being made available to help physicians understand the size of a patient’s cardiac anatomy.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Rady Children’s Hospital Launches No-Cost Z-Score Calculator To Support Pediatric Cardiology Patient Care

March 16, 2023 — Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, the largest children’s hospital on the West Coast of the United ...

March 16, 2023

The three-decade-old international cutpoint for diagnosing children and adolescents with an enlarged heart misclassifies normal heart size as cardiac damage in adolescents, a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology concludes

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Researchers Suggest Novel Cutpoints for Diagnosing Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adolescents and Young Adults

March 13, 2023 — An enlarged heart, often described as left ventricular hypertrophy, is a sign of early cardiac damage ...

March 13, 2023

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Researchers Suggest Novel Cutpoints for Diagnosing Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adolescents and Young Adults

March 9, 2023 — An enlarged heart, often described as left ventricular hypertrophy, is a sign of early cardiac damage ...

March 09, 2023