Cardiology
Reducing stroke risk in children with severe heart failure
Hospitals across the country are teaming up to improve outcomes in kids who need mechanical heart pumps for congenital heart disease or heart failure.
Jun 23, 2022
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Congenital Heart Disease
Cardiology
Outcomes worse with reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery
Among transplant-free survivors requiring predischarge reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery, those with persistent major residua have significantly worse long-term outcomes, according to a study published in the ...
Jun 21, 2022
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Pediatrics
Fetal brain imaging predicts neurodevelopment of babies with congenital heart disease
Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) often have neurodevelopmental impairment. Until fairly recently, this was thought to stem from complications of cardiac surgery or reduced oxygen supply to the brain due to the ...
Jun 3, 2022
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Genetics
New study looks at heart defect risk in children of people with heart defects
Congenital heart defects may be much more common among children of women with heart defects than of men with heart defects, according to new research.
May 25, 2022
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Genetics
Scientists implicate non-cardiac genes in congenital heart disease
Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA—a crucial regulatory step before proteins are created. Then, organs develop and hopefully ...
Apr 27, 2022
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Neuroscience
Impaired prenatal brain growth predicts adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease
A new study reports that selective impairments in regional fetal brain growth predict adverse cognitive, language and motor outcomes in infants with congenital heart disease. Interestingly, larger fetal ventricular volumes ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Cardiology
Heart issues after COVID-19 uncommon in children and young adults, more research needed
Heart complications are uncommon, yet treatable for children and young adults after COVID-19 disease or SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that details what has ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Cardiology
Social determinants of health affect care for people with congenital heart disease
As medical and surgical treatments have improved and survival has increased, the majority of people with congenital heart disease are now adults rather than children, yet disparities driven by social determinants of health ...
Apr 7, 2022
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Cardiology
Recommendations on genetic testing for inherited cardiac diseases published today
When should patients and family members undergo genetic assessment for a heart condition? Find out in an international consensus document published in EP Europace, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Genetics
Using genetics to glimpse future of newborns with congenital heart disease
Aside from infections, congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of infant mortality. Informed by babies she sees in the NICU, Sarah Morton, MD, Ph.D., attending physician in the Division of Newborn Medicine at ...
Apr 1, 2022
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