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Congenital Heart Disease |
Heart Diseases, Congenital |
Cross-section of a healthy heart. Congenital heart disease is heart disease in the newborn, and includes congenital heart defects, congenital arrythmias, and cardiomyopathies. Congenital heart disease, which is also referred to as CHD, is a defect of the heart that exists primarily at birth. CHD can describe a wide variety of different abnormalities affecting the heart. CHD occurs when the heart or blood vessels near the heart does not develop properly before birth. Therefore, the hear ...
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- American Heart Association
- Aortic Regurgitation (American Heart Association)
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) (Cleveland Clinic)
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) (American Heart Association)
- Atrial Septal Defects: Surgical and Transcatheter Management (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Blood Flow Through a Healthy Heart (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examination (American Heart Association)
- Cardiac Ultrasound and Doppler Echocardiography (American Heart Association)
- Cardiology Services (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Chest X-Rays: Helping Detect Heart and Lung Conditions (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Children & Heart Disease: Glossary (American Heart Association)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Heart Defects, Congenital (National Institutes of Health)
- Coarctation of the Aorta (American Heart Association)
- Complete Atrioventricular Canal (CAVC) (American Heart Association)
- Congenital Cardiovascular Defects (American Heart Association)
- Congenital Cardiovascular Defects Statistics (American Heart Association)
- Congenital Cardiovascular Defects Treatments (American Heart Association)
- Congenital Heart Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
- Congenital Heart Defects in Adults (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Congenital heart disease (Google Health)
- Congenital Heart Disease (National Institutes of Health)
- Congenital Heart Disease (National Library Medicine)
- Congenital heart Disease (Cleveland Clinic)
- Congenital Heart Disease (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Congenital Heart Disease (Medline Plus)
- Congenital Heart Disease and Your Baby: How to Care for Your Baby (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Congenital heart disease in a cohort of 19, 502 births with long-term follow-up (Google Health)
- Congenital Heart Information Network
- Congenital Valve Defects in Adults (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Cutting Balloon for Pulmonary Artery Stenosis: A Clinical Trial (Cleveland Clinic)
- Ebstein's Anomaly (American Heart Association)
- Echocardiogram: Sound Imaging of the Heart (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - RealPlayer plug-in is required to view video files
- Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) (American Heart Association)
- Exercise Tests (American Heart Association)
- Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy (American Heart Association) - Links to PDF File
- Feeding Your Infant with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) (American Heart Association)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Fetal Echocardiography (American Society of Echocardiography)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Pediatric Echocardiography (American Society of Echocardiography)
- Genetic Counseling for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (American Heart Association)
- Genetics Home Reference: Down syndrome (Genetics Home Reference)
- Genetics Home Reference: Noonan syndrome (Genetics Home Reference)
- Genetics Home Reference: Turner syndrome (Genetics Home Reference)
- Glossary of Childhood Onset Heart Disease (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Glossary of Terms and Acronym Expansions for Perfusion Technology, Open Heart Surgery and Cardiology (American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology)
- Heart Murmurs and Your Child (Nemours Foundation)
- Heart Murmurs: Can They Develop Later in Life? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Heart Transplants in Infants and Children (American Heart Association)
- Heart Truth for Women, The (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center, NHLBI, NIH, HHS)
- How a Cardiologist Diagnoses Heart Defects (American Heart Association)
- How Is a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closed Using a Catheter-Based Procedure (Cleveland Clinic)
- How Is an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Closed Using a Catheter-Based Procedure (Cleveland Clinic)
- Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) (Cleveland Clinic)
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (American Heart Association)
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (Cleveland Clinic)
- If Your Child Has a Heart Defect (Nemours Foundation)
- Insurance, Legal Issues and Advance Directives (American Heart Association)
- Keeping Your Heart Healthy (American Heart Association)
- Kid-Size Implant Holds Promise for Managing Severe Pediatric Heart Disease (Cleveland Clinic)
- Long Q-T Syndrome (American Heart Association)
- Medical Treatment (American Heart Association)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- New Alternatives to Open Heart Surgery for Children (Cleveland Clinic)
- New Devices Treat Heart Defects (Food and Drug Administration)
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA): A Parent's Guide (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) (Cleveland Clinic)
- Pediatric Heart Defects: Diagnostic Procedures (Cleveland Clinic)
- Physical Activity and Exercise (American Heart Association)
- Protein-Losing Enteropathy After the Fontan Operation (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Pulmonary Artery Stenosis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Pulmonary Atresia (American Heart Association)
- Pulmonary Valve Stenosis (American Heart Association)
- Pulmonic Stenosis and Balloon Valvuloplasty (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Respiratory syncytial viral infection in infants with congenital heart disease (Google Health)
- Sex, Pregnancy and Birth Control (American Heart Association)
- Síndrome Velocardiofacial (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Single-Ventricle Defects (American Heart Association)
- Sudden Cardiac Death (Congenital Heart Information Network)
- Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease (Cleveland Clinic)
- Tetralogy of Fallot (American Heart Association)
- Tetralogy of Fallot (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- The Helex Septal Occluder for Atrial Septal Defect (ASD): Continued Access Trial (Cleveland Clinic)
- The incidence of congenital heart disease (Google Health)
- The Starflex Septal Occluder for a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO): The Closure I Trial (Cleveland Clinic)
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection (American Heart Association)
- Transposition of the Great Arteries (American Heart Association)
- Tricuspid Atresia (American Heart Association)
- Truncus Arteriosus (American Heart Association)
- Velocardiofacial Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) (American Heart Association)
- What Are Holter, Event and Transtelephonic Monitors? (American Heart Association)
- What Is a Pediatric Heart Surgeon? (American Academy of Pediatrics) - Links to PDF File
- What Is Congenital Heart Disease? (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- Your Child's Special Needs (American Heart Association)
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