Ventura's permanent interatrial shunt was designed to shunt blood from the left to right atrium to improve symptoms in ...

For babies born with some types of congenital heart disease that require palliative procedures within the first few months of life, scientists are debating which procedure is the best. In a new study ...

Babies with moderate to severe congenital heart disease usually require adequate blood supply to the lungs for survival, until proper surgery plan is adopted. In a recent study, pediatric researchers ...

Infants with various forms of congenital heart disease require a stable source of blood flow to their lungs in order to survive until a more definitive operation can be performed. In a recent study, ...

-- Initial cases conducted in the Republic of Georgia with support from leading US cardiologists -- Adjustable interatrial shunt with integrated bi-atrial pressure monitoring aims to deliver a more ...

For babies born with a certain heart defect, implantation of a "shunt" is essential to their survival. A new type of shunt can be expanded using light after it's been implanted, potentially ...

NORFOLK , Va. - It's an epidemic that affects more than six million people in the U.S., and doctors diagnose 800,000 new cases each year. "Heart failure is the number one cause of hospital admission ...

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are among the top eight causes of infant mortality worldwide. Annually, CHDs affect around 40,000 infants in the United States, with approximately one in four having a ...

Children born with the major congenital heart defect hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) often must undergo a series of corrective surgeries beginning at birth. While most have the standard ...

Have you heard of a Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt for rerouting subclavian arterial blood to the lungs as palliation for cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD)? But the BT shunt would never have seen ...