At 15 months old, Dr. Kyle Riggs had his first heart surgery. Now, he's a pediatric heart surgeon at the University of ...

Adults with both Down syndrome and congenital heart defects, also known as congenital heart disease (CHD), are showing remarkable resilience despite facing significant medical challenges, according to ...

Fetal intervention techniques in the treatment of congenital heart defects – one of the most important advances in modern ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association, along with several other leading medical ...

If you wear a smart watch or fitness tracker, you might be pretty aware of your heart rate. But you probably don’t spend much time thinking about how the blood flows through your heart with each beat.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has endorsed a simplified screening algorithm for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) and more uniform reporting of data in updates included in its new ...

New ACC/AHA guidelines provide updated management strategies for the growing population of adults living with congenital heart disease.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Dell Children’s Medical Center announced Monday it had successfully performed a partial heart transplant on an 11-month-old boy, marking the first of its kind in Texas and the seventh ...

A child's risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) may be related to a past hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in either parent, according to a retrospective cohort study. Paternal preconception HBV ...

Being born with a heart defect may be associated with an increased cancer risk for babies and their moms, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal ...

American guidelines now emphasize a greater role of specialized cardiologists in routine care for people with adult ...