Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, UT Health Austin and Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the ...

The Single Ventricle Reconstruction (SVR) trial, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung ... with tetralogy of Fallot or ventricular septal defect whose repairs were performed through the ventricle ...

Approximately 1,000 children are born each year with a single ventricle heart defect, when one lower chamber of the heart is ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the pulse ox bill into law, and it took effect in January 2014. Now, every baby born in New ...

This increasing adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) profile brings with ... The type of the Fontan procedure to palliate single ventricle patients changes every decade, making it difficult ...

Whitehead, M.D., Ph.D. and colleagues describe their experience in identifying blood flow reversal in children who have undergone superior cavopulmonary connections (SCPC) as part of the Fontan ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

The condition can be fatal if left untreated. Nearly all single ventricle congenital heart defects, particularly those in the right ventricle, eventually lead to heart failure. Surgery to correct ...

The condition can be fatal if left untreated. Nearly all single ventricle congenital heart defects, particularly those in the right ventricle, eventually lead to heart failure. Surgery to correct ...

When a heart contends with having just one functional ... care centers that care for more than 1,400 patients with single-ventricle disease. The study looked at 259 infants who underwent the ...