Cardiology

California boy needed surgery to fix unusual heart defect

On her first visit to the hospital to check on her newborn patient, the pediatrician detected a heart murmur. A few days later, at Cix Greene's first office visit, the doctor didn't hear it. It was almost eight years later, ...

Cardiology

Large study of thoracic aortic aneurysm backs guidelines

A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm—a bulge in the part of the main artery that runs through ...

Cardiology

Teen with heart defect wants to help others like her

Peyton Bono makes sure her friends know the drill. If they're at a pep rally, for instance, and it's a hot day and she's starting to feel dizzy and unsteady, they'll probably see her count her heart beats.

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