For cases of mild congenital heart defects (CHDs), more prenatal visits are associated with lower probability of delivery at ...

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

Researchers sought to examine data related to mortality rates and causes of death across the lifespans of patients with congenital heart disease in the US.

For decades, it was impossible for clinicians to know which babies with major heart defects might eventually have ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes joined a patient advocacy ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that a genetic mutation that causes congenital heart disease also ...

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 ...

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 ...