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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By AllanH13
About 5 weeks ago our 15 month old son started turning purple, mainly on his extremities and lips. Over the first we...
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By amishkeniya
My son has been detected with a 4mm-5mm vsd in the muscular portion of the heart. It was detected on day 4 of his bir...
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By kencaro
Hi, Our second daughter was born on December 3rd 2012 with a heart condition that was missed during the pregnancy ...
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By proseydas
My daughter is now 15 month old weigning 9+ kgs, identified with ASD, VSD and PDA on her 2nd day. The VSD and PDA got...
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By Beckyrae1
Hi, my daughter has been having chest pains for about 3 years now. she's been to pediatric heart doctors & they check...
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By Roslyn84
Hi, my son is 7 and he was born with tetralogy of fallot. His 1st surgery was at 2 days old, then he had a conduit pl...
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By rishabh1234
Hello Doctor, I am Sanjay form India. My son is of 7 years old. During his birth he was diagnosied with a VSD of...
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By mshanson3121
Our daughter is 2.5, and seems to have issues with her circulation. While we've been told it's rare, it certainly loo...
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By rjthkids
My 6 month old daughter (heterotaxy with C-AVC, d-tga, mild PS, TAPVR etc. etc.) had a pulmonary artery band placed o...
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Jeffrey R Boris, M.D. Dec 30, 2012
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By 9krishijones Blank
Among the Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) and Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), which one is the worse - which affects the ...
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Jeffrey R Boris, M.D. Dec 30, 2012
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By pamelabamya92
I am 23 weeks as of tomorrow and I had an ultrasound a coouple of weeks ago and the results came back that my amnioti...
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bindugopikaDec 28, 2012
Jeffrey R Boris, M.D. Dec 12, 2012
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By tufaan
Presently my 3 years 3months old baby has ASD (Ostium Secundum) of size 8 mm with Left to Right shunt, Dialated RA & ...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By abhishektank
Hello Doctor, After the birth of my daughter before 4 days, doctor were taken for cardiac evaluation. she was dia...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By akter11
hi, I have a 17 days old boy. I took him to a child specialist for his stool problem who gave him an echo for hearing...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By Kelz72312
i am 17 years old i have anxiety and depression well i went to the doctor this morning for chest pain that has been g...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By Maria8800
my daughter is 8 weeks old and has been diagnosed with VSD. the docs say that its tiny apical muscular VSD left to ri...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By abdullah_islam
My newborn son got a 4.4mm asd 2 ° (left-to-right shunt), along with stenosis and mild TR. (as per echo color doppl...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 20, 2012
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By Maria8800
impression of my baby's echo report is following: situs solitus levocardia normal pulmonary venous connection...
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Marie M Gleason, M.D. Dec 05, 2012
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By rjthkids
My daughter is 5 months with a complicated medical history, including lobar holoprosencephaly, epilespy, ischemic str...
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Jeffrey R Boris, M.D. Dec 04, 2012
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By sbogle
Hello! I will be setting up an appointment to come to CHOP as soon as my daughter's medical records arrive there, whi...
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