When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a hole in the wall between the heart’s two upper chambers. ASD is a congenital heart defect, meaning it is present from birth. In some cases of ASD, a small hole may only ...

ATLANTA — Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is celebrating the success of a surgery that closed a hole in the heart of a four-week-old girl. When she arrived at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Baby ...

Brooks Klingsporn received a cutting-edge in-utero cardiac surgery while in the womb to treat a life-threatening heart defect ...

Question: I recently was hospitalized for something unrelated, but during my treatment, I was given a transesophageal echocardiogram that recorded a hole in my heart. The care team at the hospital ...

Around 2,000 people attended the American Heart Association’s Boston Heart Walk on Sunday to honor loved ones impacted by ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) can arise from a range of genetic and physiological triggers, but the common denominator—elevated left atrial (LA) pressure—has spawned a host of ...

When first-time parents were told their son had a 7mm hole in his heart, they were left shattered, but the support of ...

An appeal for £3m to help a toddler in need of life-saving heart surgery has raised £60,000 in the first six weeks. Ollie from Gobowen, in Shropshire, was born with a hole in his heart and defects in ...

Septal myectomy is an open-heart surgical procedure in which part of the thickened septum of the heart muscle is removed. It can improve symptoms in people with severe HCM, and complications are rare.

At seven months pregnant in the spring of 2017, Ellyn Waler visited her doctor for an ultrasound, and the test detected an abnormality. She saw a cardiologist for a follow-up, and she and husband Brad ...