Pediatric Cardiology

This channel includes news regarding new technologies used in the specialized care for diagnosing and treating children with heart conditions. This includes advanced diagnostics for evaluating and treating pediatric heart conditions such as congenital heart defects, cardiac arrhythmias and acquired heart diseases.

A new American Heart Association science advisory urges clinical care guidelines for youth, and for hospitals, payers and policymakers to help meet the need for best practices in pediatric preventive cardiovascular care

News | Stroke

Survey of CVD Programs Finds More Resources Needed for Heart Disease and Stroke Risk in Youth

August 8, 2023 — More adolescents and teens are developing health conditions that may increase their risk of premature c ...

August 08, 2023

The goal of the new initiative is to build a national effort to diagnose and treat many more children

News | Pediatric Cardiology

A Model for Africa: Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry Announces New Initiative to Become Self-Sufficient in Pediatric Cardiology Surgery

July 7, 2023 — Launched by Mitrelli Group, Menomadin Foundation, Save a Child’s Heart, Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry and ...

July 07, 2023

Novel polymeric valve aims to reduce re-operations and re-interventions

News | Pediatric Cardiology

PECA Labs Achieves Successful First-In-Human Implant of the MASA Valve Pediatric Pulmonary Valved Conduit in U.S. Clinical Trial

June 13, 2023 — PECA Labs, a medical device company reimagining vascular grafts and valves with durable polymeric ...

June 13, 2023

Cardiac photon-counting CT (PCCT) in a 174-day-old male infant with complex congenital heart defect.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Photon-Counting CT Offers Superior Imaging in Babies with Heart Defects

May 24, 2023 — A new advanced form of computed tomography (CT) imaging called photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) ...

May 24, 2023

A heart muscle cell with mutations in the gene that makes the Rotatin protein (bottom) has disorganized muscle fibers (red) compared to healthy heart muscle cell (top).

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Research Identifies New Cause of Heart Failure Condition in Children

May 11, 2023 — In an effort to determine the cause behind a rare condition that causes heart failure in children, Univer ...

May 11, 2023

Researchers have identified specific biomarker patterns in the blood that are unique to severe COVID-19 infection, as well as others unique to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Researchers Identify Unique Biomarker Patterns Identifying MIS-C and Severe COVID in Children

April 24, 2023 — Using powerful sequencing technology, researchers have identified specific biomarker patterns in the ...

April 24, 2023

Researchers have found that digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has improved breast cancer screening performance in community practice and identifies more invasive cancers, compared to digital mammography. In addition, radiologists’ interpretive performance improved with DBT

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Wireless Pacemakers May be Safe, Effective for Children with Irregular Heart Rhythms

April 13, 2023 — Wireless or leadless pacemakers, commonly implanted in adults, may be a safe and effective short-term ...

April 13, 2023

The need for appropriate diagnosis, treatment and reduction of lifestyle risk factors for high blood pressure in youth were outlined in a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published March 30 in the Association’s Hypertension journal.

News | Hypertension

Children with High Blood Pressure in Spotlight with AHA Journal Scientific Statement

April 4, 2023 — The need for appropriate diagnosis, treatment and reduction of lifestyle risk factors for high blood ...

April 04, 2023

They have discovered the cellular mechanism underlying this cardiovascular anomaly that is very common among people

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Scientists of the University of Malaga Found the Origin of Congenital Coronary Fistulae

March 31, 2023 — Scientists of the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Malaga have discovered the cellular ...

March 31, 2023

ParameterZ by Rady Children’s Hospital, a no-cost standard deviation (z-score) calculator which has expanded its capabilities to cardiac MRI, is now being made available to help physicians understand the size of a patient’s cardiac anatomy.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Rady Children’s Hospital Launches No-Cost Z-Score Calculator To Support Pediatric Cardiology Patient Care

March 16, 2023 — Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, the largest children’s hospital on the West Coast of the United ...

March 16, 2023

The three-decade-old international cutpoint for diagnosing children and adolescents with an enlarged heart misclassifies normal heart size as cardiac damage in adolescents, a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology concludes

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Researchers Suggest Novel Cutpoints for Diagnosing Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adolescents and Young Adults

March 13, 2023 — An enlarged heart, often described as left ventricular hypertrophy, is a sign of early cardiac damage ...

March 13, 2023

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Researchers Suggest Novel Cutpoints for Diagnosing Cardiac Hypertrophy in Adolescents and Young Adults

March 9, 2023 — An enlarged heart, often described as left ventricular hypertrophy, is a sign of early cardiac damage ...

March 09, 2023

20-Year study shows advances in care have improved outcomes for newborns with congenital heart disease (CHD)

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Brain Injuries Drop 20% for Babies with Heart Defects

February 6, 2023 — Recent advances in newborn heart surgery have greatly reduced brain injuries in infants with ...

February 06, 2023

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is excited to announce the opening of its Heart and Mind Wellbeing Center, the first of its kind in the United States.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Cincinnati Children’s Opens First-of-its-Kind Heart and Mind Wellbeing Center in United States

January 27, 2023 — Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is excited to announce the opening of its Heart and ...

January 27, 2023

NIH-supported study finds no serious complications following rare immune condition, multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19 Vaccine for Children After MIS-C Appears Safe

January 6, 2023 — A study of children and adolescents who received a COVID-19 vaccination following multisystem ...

January 06, 2023