In a clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online Feb. 18 in Pediatrics, recommendations ...

Background Infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are clinically vulnerable to cardiac deteriorations and intercurrent ...

People think they can just get an operation and that’s it – they don’t know how much it can affect their life' ...

Awareness Month, and mum Freya O'Sullivan wants to raise awareness for children in Ireland living with heart defects ...

Cora was only 20 weeks pregnant when doctors discovered Abigail had an abnormal pulmonary valve, which caused extreme ...

A husband and wife team from Minnesota have opened up about the fateful decision they had to make about their 14-month-old ...

"It hasn't been easy being a mom and dealing with grief ... I struggle with the question of 'How many kids do you have?' " ...

Kaitlyn Greenberg was born with a congenital heart defect called pulmonary atresia and her first open heart surgery at two ...

Objective There is growing evidence that maternal mortality in pregnant women with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease (PAH-CHD) is lower than that in available ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is commonly associated with congenital heart disease (CHD) and relates to type of the underlying cardiac defects and repair history. Large systemic to pulmonary ...

However, babies and children can be born with cataracts, or they may develop them as they age. A congenital cataract causes the same symptoms as adult cataracts—a clouding in the lens of the eye that ...

You may be given bronchodilator medication to increase airflow to your lungs. Your doctor may recommend pulmonary rehabilitation, a program designed to increase your awareness about your condition.