Congenital Heart
This Congenital Heart Disease channel includes news and new technology to diagnose, treat and manage congenital heart disease. This includes transposed vessels, tetralogy of Fallot, pediatric cardiomyopathy, pulmonary heart valves, pulmonary atresia, patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect (VSD).
Tucker Roussin, 3, is the first survivor of fetal surgery for a life-threatening tumor connected to his heart. Fetal medicine experts at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia successfully removed this tumor. Credit: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
News | Congenital Heart | October 28, 2016
October 28, 2016 — For the first time, fetal medicine experts have performed prenatal heart surgery to remove a life-...
News | Congenital Heart | October 19, 2016
October 19, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the launch of the ADO II AS (AMPLATZER Duct Occluder II Additional...
News | Heart Valve Technology | October 06, 2016
October 6, 2016 — Xeltis announced this week that patients implanted with its bioabsorbable cardiovascular conduit...
News | Heart Valve Technology | October 04, 2016
October 4, 2016 — Xeltis recently announced that three pediatric patients have been successfully implanted with the...
Videos | Congenital Heart | October 04, 2016
This video, provided by Xeltis, demonstrates the world’s first bioresorbable heart valve enabling cardiovascular...
News | Congenital Heart | September 09, 2016
September 9, 2016 — New research published Sept. 8 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology reports the role of genes in...
News | Heart Valve Technology | September 09, 2016
September 9, 2016 — Six-month preclinical data from trials of a Xeltis bioabsorbable aortic conduit were presented at...
News | Cardiovascular Surgery | August 08, 2016
August 8, 2016 — ClearFlow Inc. announced in late July that its PleuraFlow Active Clearance Technology is now available...
News | Congenital Heart | July 20, 2016
July 20, 2016 — At the end of June, experts from three different medical societies released a new guideline to help...
Technology | Telecardiology | July 19, 2016
July 19, 2016 — Dictum Health Inc. announced the launch of a post-U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval...
News | Congenital Heart | June 30, 2016
June 30, 2016 — CorMatrix Cardiovascular Inc. announced the treatment of the first patients using its CorMatrix Tyke, a...
This image shows blood flow within the main pumping chambers – the ventricles – on both sides of the heart and the vessels leaving the heart. The blue flow is blood that needs oxygen and is travelling to the lungs. The red flow is blood that has been through the lungs and received oxygen. Victoria Stoll of the University of Oxford is using this type of imaging to look at the blood flow within the hearts of people with heart failure, whose hearts are not pumping effectively.
News | Cardiac Imaging | June 24, 2016
June 24, 2016 — The British Heart Foundation (BHF) announced the winners of its annual ‘Reflections of Research’ image...
Videos | Structural Heart Occluders | June 16, 2016
This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the...
News | Telecardiology | June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016 — Two new research studies verify that echocardiography, linked to experts through telemedicine, can...
News | Congenital Heart | May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 — In a recent study, the use of a stent to repair pulmonary artery stenosis in children and adults with...
