Parents of an 18-month-old baby girl, one of a set of twins, have made a desperate appeal for urgent financial support to ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...

Atrioventricular septal defect is a developmental irregularity in which a hole connects two or more chambers in your child’s heart. This hole may connect the top two, the bottom two, or all four ...

Nearly 40 years ago when Lis Dreizen’s daughter Olivia was born with a congenital heart defect, doctors were grim about her chances to live. “I would cry simply looking at Olivia, and it was very hard ...

Professional cardiology societies have issued an updated guideline for the management of adult patients with congenital heart ...

The interventricular septum separates the heart’s two ventricles and plays a vital role in maintaining correct bloodflow. Sometimes a defect can occur or be present from birth. This can increase the ...

As a child, MarlaJan Wexler-Gormley spent a lot of time at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia undergoing surgeries. Working as a nurse there has been healing. When nurse MarlaJan “MJ” Wexler-Gormley ...