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Pediatric Heart (Expert Forum)

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Questions in this forum are answered by pediatric cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and anesthesiologists from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This forum is for questions and support about pediatric heart problems, symptoms and topics such as heart murmurs, palpitations, fainting, chest pain, congenital heart defects (including management and intervention), fetal cardiology, adult congenital cardiology, arrhythmias and pre-participation athletic screening.
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Congenital Bicuspid Aortic Valve

by brokenheart44,
I'll attempt to keep is as short as possible. I'm a 37yr old male, and ...
3

double switch surgery or not

by Jnani,
my 12 year old son has congenitally corrected transposition of the grea...
1

**important.

by apoohb73,
Hi, i have to draw an artificial heart in biology 2 class at school....
5

Confusion about congenital heart disease operation

by MASP,
We should like to seek your expert opinion sir, for a 3 months old ba...
4

Viral Myocarditis & Cardiomyopathy

by Jayaprakashshanmugam,
Dear Doctor I am writing this from India My Son was diagnosied (p...
4

Small muscular VSD

by azariah,
Hello Doctor, a VSD was detected during my son's ante-natal scan. After...
1

echocardiograph results

by aparsons,
Hello, My 2 1/2 year son was diagnosed with a murmur and had and ech...
1

Left Ventricle at Upper Limits of Normal

by givenjoy10,
Hello! My son is 3 years old and has been going to a ped. cardiologi...
1

Is a 49% ejection fraction normal for a 12 year old girl?

by sjmslp,
There is a history of cardiomyopathy in my family. I had my children r...
1

3mm vsd

by durwank09,
my baby durwank is patient of vsd. how much time he will take to recove...
3

SVT Causes and Treatment

by Umar_Khan,
My daughter is 9 years old. She has been diagnosed with SVT two days ag...
1

20 wks. preg- fetal arrhythmia

by NucmedTech,
Hello. I am currently 20 weeks pregnant and was told that my daughter h...
3

Aortic valve replacement options

by rjthkids,
Hello, I wrote a little while back about my daughter age three who w...
1

Heart Murmur/Stop Breathing

by amburlee,
My son's doctor told me not to let him scream becuase he heard a heart...
1

7 month old heart murmur

by amburlee,
My son just had a 7 month visit yesterday and I was devisated to hear t...
3

blue lips & hands & heart murmur

by scottishmum,
Hi I have a son at 18months who i am a little worried about as his lips...
3

Rapid painful heart beats

by Dromi,
My 7.5 year old, healthy son, woke up at 5am crying that his heart is b...
3

5 year old with enlarged heart

by FaithfulMom2,
A few weeks ago, my 5 year old daughter was complaining of a stiff neck...
2

VSD in 8 Month Fetus

by seethama,
Hi Doc, My wife is pregnant for the past 29 weeks, we took a colour ...
1

Finding a cause for DCM

by coolbu20,
My son was diagnosed with DCM at 11 days of age (Feb 09.) They initial...
4

muscular skeletal chest pains

by lisa16kent,
Hi. Im 16 and for the past 6 months i have been getting muscular ske...
1

Child with CHD

by drito,
My husband and I are trying to adopt from China. We received a packet o...
1

Dilated Aortic Root and Cardiomyopathy

by MissyKL,
My daughter seems to have gotten a double-whammy where her heart is con...
2

Tachycardia

by suzy224,
My son is 11 yrs old. He has complained of palpitations, occasional sho...
7

myxoma ?

by Grandmato2,
Less than 2 weeks ago my son and his wife were told that their 9 1/2 mo...
3

What is going on?

by philip314,
I am a 16 year old male. I weight 120 pounds and am 5'9. Since march I ...
1

Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Enlarged Aortic Root - 8 yr old

by TPittman,
My son will turn 8 this weekend and was diagnosed last year with a bicu...
1

treatments options

by hfinkhouse,
My 7 yr old was just dx's with mild bicuspid aortic stenosis and mod to...
1

Possibility of heart attack

by claw641,
Don't really have chest pain, but i didnt know what else to pick. I too...
1

question for dr boris

by firestarter535,
ain dr boris, we have chatted recently regarding my 10 month old daught...
1

Heart Surgery

by sachin1977,
My nephew (7 years) has been operated for PA banding surgery (MAX Devi ...
1

pulmonary stenosis & migraines

by kearneytink,
my grandaughter is 9 yrs. old she was dignosed with pulmonary stenosis ...
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Robert E Shaddy, M.D.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Gil Wernovsky, M.D.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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