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What is a blood transfusion?When a child has low blood levels or is missing a part of the blood that the body needs, she is given blood through an IV. [...]

The Catheterization Lab is used for a variety of heart tests and to make corrections to the heart. Many defects that required open heart surgery in the past can now [...]

Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular outflow tract [...]

What is a permanent pacemaker? A permanent pacemaker, a small device that is implanted under the skin (most often in the shoulder area just under the collarbone), sends electrical signals [...]

For months I've been working on a post regarding a possible link between learning disabilities and CHD, specifically in children who have undergone open heart surgery. We all know that [...]

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common birth defects in humans, affecting 8 per 1000 live births with one third of affected children requiring intervention in early infancy. Increasing [...]

What is sepsis? Sepsis (SEP-sis) is a serious condition that occurs when your child's body overreacts to an infection. It is also called systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) with infection. [...]

One of the complications Chloe endured after the Arterial Switch Operation was Left Vocal Cord Paresis (weakness in the left vocal fold). Cardiac surgery represents a risk to normal voice [...]

Objective. To identify pre- and intraoperative variables associated with postoperative acute neurologic events (ANEs), including seizures and coma, in newborn survivors of congenital heart surgery undergoing deep hypothermic circulatory arrest [...]