Nearly 17% of US adults with congenital heart disease are at a high risk for operative mortality and critical postoperative complications after redo cardiac surgery. This increased risk emphasizes the ...

Clinicians caring for patients with congenital heart disease are now facing a growing challenge: managing the condition in adults. Often adults born with congenital heart disease fall through the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Heart Association and ACC unveiled an updated guideline for managing adult congenital heart disease ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association, along with several other leading medical associations, have issued a new guideline for managing congenital heart disease in ...

Partial heart transplants for congenital heart disease using donor semilunar valves showed valve growth matching patient development in infants. Transplanted valves functioned well over time, with no ...

(BPT) - A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation that presents an extraordinary challenge for pediatric heart ...

Researchers from UCL (University College London) and the ESRF (The European Synchrotron) have produced the first three-dimensional map of the heart's electrical wiring in Tetralogy of Fallot, one of ...

(BPT) - Although you may not think of children when you imagine someone with heart problems, congenital heart defects are actually the most common birth defect in the U.S., occurring in about 1% of ...

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 ...