A family’s concerns over alleged ambulance and hospital delays after their 21-month-old had a seizure and died will be heard ...

The following is a summary of “Intraoperative Conduction Mapping to Reduce Postoperative Atrioventricular Block in Complex ...

A TEAM of Zimbabwean cardiothoracic surgeons together with a visiting team from Egypt have embarked on a week-long congenital ...

Advances are helping people born with heart defects to make it into adulthood and retirement age. Medical care hasn't kept up ...

If pulmonary hypertension has developed, the split second heart sound is replaced by a narrowly ... especially in significant defects. A radiogram may show enlargement of the right chambers ...

Supraventricular arrhythmia substantially increased the risk of ischemic stroke (hazard ratio [HR] 22.6 [95% CI, 11.1–45.9]). Presence of atrial septal defect significantly affected arrhythmia and ...

He had no symptoms of heart disease. In 2023, a family friend told him about a newer, more detailed test that offered a view of the arteries without any invasive procedures. "I go in thinking I'm ...

Echocardiography revealed a large, isolated mid-muscular ventricular septal defect (7 mm) with bidirectional shunting ... In conclusion, although this dog has a congenital heart defect that cannot be ...

Childhood heart disease is the leading cause of ... his team have conducted to try and identify the causes of congenital heart disease. "We're one of the top three child health institutes in ...

heart arrhythmias, vascular disease, congenital heart defects, stroke and high blood pressure. Over 12 million Americans are believed to have peripheral artery disease, which increases the ...

It is hard to mend a broken heart, but in a few years doctors might be able to do essentially that. Scientists are closing in on ways to help patients grow new heart muscle after a heart attack ...