Single ventricle malformations are a severe form of congenital heart defect in which one of the two normal ventricles of the heart is missing or malformed. In the first of several staged palliative ...

FDA advisors on Wednesday will deliberate on whether shunt therapy still has a narrow path forward in heart failure after a disappointing pivotal trial. In its premarket approval application for the ...

Findings from an echocardiographic study of patients with heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction treated with an atrial shunt have shed more light on mechanisms that explain ...

Larger DA diameter was significantly related to this low systemic blood flow in the early hours after birth. [13] By the time the PDA became clinically apparent (mean 72 hours), the infants were ...

The crocodile’s ability to direct oxygen-depleted blood to its stomach may be instrumental in digesting large, bony meals and recovering from hunting-induced accumulation of lactic acid, some ...

Infants born with single ventricle heart defects require palliative cardiac surgery shortly after birth. These defects are present in every 2 to 4 infants per 10,000 live births and are quickly fatal ...