Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that pig hearts could keep critically ill babies alive while they wait for a transplant.

infants with single-ventricle heart disease have a critical need for new options. Currently, only about 30% of those babies will survive three months on a VAD, due to high rates of strokes ...

During right heart catheterization, oxygen saturations are frequently measured from different cardiac chambers in order to identify left to right shunts. If a ventricular septal defect is present ...

infants with single-ventricle heart disease have a critical need for new options. Currently, only about 30% of those babies will survive three months on a VAD, due to high rates of strokes ...

SEOUL, South Korea, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mezzion Pharmaceuticals, a global leader in the development of therapies for patients with single ventricle heart disease, announces a ...

Innovative Graphic Medicine project turns real experiences into illustrated stories, amplifying the voices of adults with single ventricle heart conditions (‘half a heart’). Based in ...

A CHLA heart surgeon presented the xenotransplant results in a plenary session at the International Society for Heart and ...

Heart defect repair is surgery to fix a heart problem that prevents blood from flowing as it should through the heart. The doctor will make a large cut in your chest. The cut is called an incision. It ...

More information: Muhammad Bakr Ghbeis et al, Biventricular Repair of Univentricular Heart Lowers Risk of Liver Disease Compared With the Fontan Operation, JACC: Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j ...