Congenital Heart Disease

Latest News
• Kids Can Have Heart Disease Too (03/14/2001, Associated Press)
• More Babies Thriving After Heart Surgery (03/02/2001, Reuters)

General/Overviews

• Congenital Cardiovascular Disease (American Heart Association)
• Congenital Heart Defects (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Congenital Heart Defects (American Heart Association)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Heart Defects, Congenital (National Institutes of Health)

Coping

• Congenital Heart Disease and Your Baby: How to Care For Your Baby (American Academy of Family Physicians)

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Fetal Echocardiography (American Heart Association) - links to PDF file
• How A Cardiologist Diagnoses Heart Defects (American Heart Association)
• Transtelephonic Cardiac Event Recording for Arrhythmia Surveillance (Children's Health Information Network)

Disease Management

• Your Child's Special Needs (American Heart Association)

Nutrition

• Feeding Your Infant with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) (American Heart Association)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Abnormal Heart Rhythms: What Parents Should Know (American Heart Association)
• Aortic Regurgitation (American Heart Association)
• Atrial Septal Defects: Surgical and Transcatheter Management (Children's Health Information Network)
• Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) (American Heart Association)
• Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (American Heart Association)
• Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA): A Parent's Guide (Children's Health Information Network)
• Patient and Family Guide to Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Mayo Clinic)
• Protein-Losing Enteropathy After the Fontan Operation (Children's Health Information Network)
• Pulmonary Stenosis (PS) (American Heart Association)
• Sudden Cardiac Death (Children's Health Information Network)
• Velocardiofacial Syndrome (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
• Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) (American Heart Association)

Treatment

• Congenital Cardiovascular Disease Treatments (American Heart Association)
• Medical Treatment (American Heart Association)
• Pulmonic Stenosis and Balloon Valvuloplasty (Children's Health Information Network)
• Types of Perfusion (American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology)

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• Children & Heart Disease: Glossary (American Heart Association)
• Glossary of Childhood Onset Heart Disease (Children's Health Information Network)
• Glossary of Terms and Acronym Expansions for Perfusion Technology, Open Heart Surgery and Cardiology (American Society of Extra-Corporeal Technology)

Organizations

• American College of Cardiology
• American Heart Association
• Children's Health Information Network
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Statistics

• Congenital Cardiovascular Disease Statistics (American Heart Association)

Español/Spanish

• Defectos Cardíacos Congénitos (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Defectos Congénitos del Corazón (American Heart Association)