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Short-Term Statin Treatment Poses Risk of Kidney Damage Among Cardiac Surgery...
People undergoing cardiac surgery are given a small dosage of statins before and after surgery to reduce their risk of atrial fibrillation. But an international clinical trial led by the University of...
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Open-Heart Surgery Lends Clues to Kidney Failure
Nearly a third of all patients undergoing heart surgery experience kidney failure, yet little is known about why kidney injury occurs or how to prevent it. No one can deny that open-heart surgery,...
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Healing Congenital Heart Disease From Within
Thanks to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease, babies born with heart defects live longer than ever. Yet, despite substantial progress, many continue to face bleak...
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Maternal Diseases Associated With Congenital Heart Disease in Newborns
Babies born to mothers with congenital heart defects or type 2 diabetes are likely to suffer from severe congenital heart disease and should be monitored closely in the prenatal period, says a new...
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Women With Congenital Heart Disease Can Have Safe and Healthy Pregnancies
bHighlights/b ul class="group-list punch-points" liCongenital heart diseases (CHD) are a group of abnormalities in the heart that develop before birth./li liAs more women with CHD survive into their...
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Non-Invasive Surgery to Cure 76-Year-Old Aortic Stenosis Patient
Aortic stenosis is a medical condition that restricts blood flow through the heart's aortic valve. In a first of its kind in India, a 76-year-old woman diagnosed with aortic stenosis was cured through...
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Women With Complex Congenital Heart Disease can Have Successful Pregnancies
bHighlights/b ul class="group-list punch-points"liCongenital heart diseases are serious abnormalities in the structure and function of the heart that are present at birth./liliThe American Heart...
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Road Map to Help Women With Congenital Heart Disease Have Successful...
There is a burgeoning group of women born with complex congenital heart disease who are now of childbearing age and want to get pregnant. For generations, doctors told women who were born with complex...
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High-Throughput in Vivo Validation to Screen Congenital Heart Disease Genes
Some 134 genes have been implicated in causing congenital heart disease (CHD), a birth defect that affects eight in 1,000 newborns, according to the National Institutes of Health. Specific genetic...
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Two Genes Responsible for Severe Congenital Heart Disease Identified
The two genes that are responsible for a severe congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) were recently reported by a research team from the University of Pittsburgh School...
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Medical Treatment may Prevent, Alleviate Mitral Valve Damage After a Heart...
A research team led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators has shown, for the first time, that it may be possible to nonsurgically treat or even prevent the...
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Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation Helps Treat Severe Cardiac Failure
Transcatheter mitral valve implantation is a new therapeutic method for the treatment of prosthetic valve dysfunction in patients with severe cardiac failure. In the future, this technique is...
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Genetic Mutations Associated With Congenital Heart Disease Identified
h2Highlights:/h2ul class="group-list punch-points"liNew genetic mutations have been found to be associated with congenital heart disease/liliSome of these are inherited, while others arise ide...
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TAVR Cost-Effective in Patients With Aortic Stenosis
Aortic stenosis is one of the most common and most serious valve disease problems which leads to narrowing of the aortic valve opening. Analysis of the PARTNER 2A trial and the SAPIEN-3 Intermediate...
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Screening Newborns for Congenital Heart Disease Lowers Infant Cardiac Deaths
Screening newborns for congenital heart disease has drastically decreased infant cardiac deaths, reveals a new study. Congenital heart disease accounted for 6 percent of U.S. infant deaths from 1999...
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Lowers Risk of Heart Disease
Percutaneous coronary intervention can reduce the risk of severe cardiovascular events in treating left main coronary artery disease, reveals a new study. A meta-analysis of several trials and nearly...
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Rapid Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Crucial for the Survival of Heart...
Death tolls rise steadily and rapidly as the time to restore blood flow in heart attack patients increases. The longer the time between a patient's first contact with a medical professional and when...
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Congenital Heart Disease may Increase Risk of Dementia in Adults
Dementia risk is higher in adults who were born with heart disease, finds a new study. The study that involved more than 10,000 adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) discovered a particularly...
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Mothers of Babies With Congenital Heart Disease At Higher Risk Of Heart...
bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"liMothers of babies born with congenital heart defects may also be at increased risk of developing heart disease later finds study/liliHeart disease is...
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3-D Printing Could Be Game Changer in Treatment of Congenital Heart Disease
bHighlights:/b ul class="group-list punch-points" liAdvancement in 3-D printing technology gives huge boost in the care and management of congenital heart disease (CHD)./li liCongenital heart disease...
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Updated Guideline for Treating Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients Released
Updated guideline for the management of adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients revealed that although the prevalence of ACHD is increasing, the population of patients with a given congenital...
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Restrictive Transfusion Therapy Benefits Cardiac Surgery Patients
Lower thresholds for blood transfusion result in positive patient outcomes 6 months after heart surgery, revealed world's largest transfusion study. The higher, traditional threshold is called...
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Kidney Size Enlargement Confirmed in Babies With Congenital Heart Disease
Babies with congenital heart disease tend to have enlarged kidneys, confirms a new study. The results showed that the kidneys were significantly enlarged and were on average 4.5 centimeters long. The...
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Sleep Apnea, Congenital Heart Disease May Up Death Risk in Hospitalized Infants
Sleep apnea and congenital heart disease may increase the risk of death in hospitalized infants, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the iJournal of Clinical Sleep...
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Botulinum Toxin Can Reduce Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac...
New study reports a promising result from two clinical trials using botulinum toxin (BTX) injections to suppress postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF). The findings of the study are published in...
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Mother's Milk: Best Diet for Infants with Congenital Heart Disease
Mother's milk is a life-saving intervention for infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), reports a new study. With a lower risk of serious complications and improved feeding and growth outcomes,...
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Clinical Treatment for Older Patients With Aortic Stenosis
Serious risks of functional decline associated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) surgery in older patients may well outweigh the benefits,...
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Studying the Treatment Success of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgeries
The success rate of as many as 13, 575 minimally invasive procedures on the mitral valve were examined in a most extensive study of its kind. The findings showed that despite the increase in the...
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Patients With Aortic Stenosis may benefit from Early Valve Replacement
An aggressive strategy of early valve replacement may benefit patients with severe aortic stenosis who have no symptoms than from a conservative watch-and-wait approach, reveals new study. The...
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Primary Cilia Defects may Cause Mitral Valve Prolapse Later in Life
Defects in the primary cilia of the developing fetus could be the culprit behind the development of mitral valve prolapse later in life, reports a new study. Genetic variation in heart valve cells of...
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Cancer Risk Among Children, Young Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease was found to be directly associated with cancer among children and young adults, said new study. National registry data in Sweden were used in this study that assessed the...
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Observing Children After Cardiac Surgery Improves Long-Term Results
Congenital heart disease correction surgery may be linked with a higher risk of death and kidney failure within a few months or years after surgery. Although deaths related to end-stage kidney disease...
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Uncorrected Congenital Heart Disease may Increase Complications in Pregnant...
Pregnant women with uncorrected congenital heart disease (CHD) may suffer severe complications such as heart failure (HF) and even death, reports a new study. Pregnant women with congenital heart...
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Apollo Hospitals Bangalore Launches Robot-Assisted Cardiac Surgery Unit
Apollo Hospitals Bangalore announced the launch of a dedicated robot-assisted cardiac surgery unit, which will offer patients with complex cardiac disease with robotic-assisted minimal invasive...
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Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease Estimated
Congenital heart disease was found to be more deadly in low-income countries, stated finding drawn from the first comprehensive study of congenital heart disease across 195 countries, prepared using...
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Stress Testing Helps Evaluate Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
A new study has found that not so stressful stress testing helped evaluate congenital heart disease in children and exercise-related complaints. "Exercise capacity can be highly predictive of the risk...
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Frailty Predicts Complications, Deaths in Mitral Valve Disease Patients
Frailty plays a vital role in outcomes following mitral valve procedures, according to the research published in the iAnnals of Thoracic Surgery/i. "Frailty correlates with mortality and length of...
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New Ultrasound Therapy for Aortic Stenosis Developed
A new Non-Invasive Ultrasound Therapy (NIUT) for the treatment of cardio-valvular diseases such as aortic stenosis has been developed by Cardiawave (France). A First-in-Man clinical trial in 10...
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New Anti-lupus Drug Helps Prevent Congenital Heart Disease
In newborn babies, a new drug hydroxychloroquine used to treat systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was found to help reduce the incidence of a rare and sometimes fatal heart condition, revealed study...
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ESC Guidelines for Management of Congenital Heart Disease
Guidelines for adults living with a chronic lifelong condition of congenital heart disease are given by the European Society of Cardiology. More than 90% of babies born with heart defects survive into...
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New Surgical Tools with Smart Sensors can Improve Cardiac Surgery and Therapy
Novel surgical instruments equipped with an advanced sensor system could dramatically improve the diagnoses and treatments of several heart diseases and conditions, reports a new study. The findings...
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Risk of COVID-19 Low Among People With Congenital Heart Disease
People born with a heart defect had a low risk of moderate or severe COVID-19 infection, according to a new article in the iJournal of the American Heart Association/i. In what may be the largest...
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Various Genes Involved in Congenital Heart Disease
Understanding how a broad network of genes and proteins go awry in a subset of congenital heart diseases, could help prevent and treat heart defects. The insights have been provided by the team of...
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Cardiac Surgery Successful on a 24-Day-Old Baby in Gujarat
A premature baby who weighed only 700 grams was found to have a heart defect called Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA). Doctors at CIMS hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, were able to perform the surgery...
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Analysis on Pregnancy Complications in Women With Congenital Heart Disease
Most of the women born with heart defects can safely become pregnant and give birth to healthy babies with few or minor problems if they are supported by expert medical care and counselling, according...
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Revealing More Than 1300 Genes Linked to Congenital Heart Disease
A new way to determine which genes cause congenital cardiac abnormalities are developed by researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The technique not only confirmed well-known CHD...
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Gene Sheds Insights into Congenital Heart Disease
VGLL4 gene key to embryo development is dispensable for myocardial growth and helps understand congenital heart defects and heart failure. h2 Congenital Heart Disease: New Insights /h2 Why this...
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Congenital Heart Disease Kills 78 Thousand Infants in India
In India, a staggering 78,000 infants born with congenital heart disease die. The reason for increased mortality includes inadequate healthcare facilities and lack of awareness. Elaborating, the...
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Congenital Heart Disease Treated with Stem Cell Plasters
bHighlights:/b ul class="group-list" li A child with congenital heart abnormality may have to undergo the same heart procedure numerous times throughout childhood. /li li The Bristol Heart Institute's...
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How to Recognize Congenital Heart Disease in Kids?
bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"li Warning signs of congenital heart disease in children include cyanosis (bluish skin discoloration), rapid breathing, poor feeding, and slow growth/li...
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