The baby's family was told that the operation carried a high success rate. The chief surgeon of a five-month-old baby girl's ...

When Su Lee was just seven years old, he found out he had a heart murmur, caused by a congenital heart defect. The heart murmur was discovered at a routine check-up after Lee was in a car accident ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common birth defects, occurring in approximately 0.9% of live births. Sadly, they are also the leading cause of ...

Screenshot from website of the the Ningbo University Affiliated Women and Children's Hospital. The tragic death of a 5-month-old baby girl nicknamed "Little Luoxi" after surgery a ...

An infant died following a routine cardiac surgery in November. Now, the results of an investigation into her death reveal medical malpractice.

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 ...

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 ...

Ghaziabad: A four-year-old child from Sudan, born with a major congenital heart defect, successfully underwent a high-risk open-heart surgery at a private hospital in Indirapuram. The child was ...