Apixaban is a safe option for pediatric patients with a variety of congenital or acquired heart diseases who require chronic anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis, the randomized SAXOPHONE study ...

The hospital has continued to see growth in scans at multiple locations – meaning it is holistically seeing more patients who ...

Researchers from the BioTis laboratory (Inserm/University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) have developed a pulmonary valve using human collagen. Such a device could revolutionize the treatment of ...

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 ...

Cardiothoracic surgeons are encouraged to voluntarily report their success rates to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ Congenital Heart Surgery Database, though no laws exist that require them to do so ...

When Kelsey Brown met Mohammed, the 15-year-old Ugandan boy looked terribly worried. He was in the late stages of rheumatic heart disease, which kills about 400,000 people a year worldwide. His ...

Hypertension in childhood increases risk for heart disease later on. Now, a new study shows that high blood pressure in children is on the rise.

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) is announcing its recent acceptance into the Pediatric Heart Network (PHN), a collective of leading hospitals working to improve outcomes and quality ...

Dr. Peter Sassalos, cardiovascular surgeon at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, with a patient. (Children's Hospital of Michigan.) The advertiser paid a fee to promote this sponsored article and may ...

As a parent, when finding out your child's heart does not work perfectly, you turn to the most gifted surgeons you can find to fix and patch the flow pathways. While there are many different types of ...