Infants with various forms of congenital heart disease require a stable source of blood flow to their lungs in order to survive until a more definitive operation can be performed. In a recent study, ...

Babies with moderate to severe congenital heart disease usually require adequate blood supply to the lungs for survival, until proper surgery plan is adopted. In a recent study, pediatric researchers ...

Have you heard of a Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt for rerouting subclavian arterial blood to the lungs as palliation for cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD)? But the BT shunt would never have seen ...

Researchers found mixed results in the first head-to-head comparison of two surgeries for infants born with severely underdeveloped hearts -- the most common severe heart birth defect. One surgery ...

Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure — yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according ...