When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Ochsner earns national accreditation for congenital heart program, becoming Louisiana's only ACHA-designated adult congenital heart disease center.

Nearly 40 years ago when Lis Dreizen’s daughter Olivia was born with a congenital heart defect, doctors were grim about her chances to live. “I would cry simply looking at Olivia, and it was very hard ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes joined a patient advocacy ...

Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are safe and well-tolerated in people with heart failure (HF) related to adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) and associated with reduced ...

Social determinants of health and disease complexity were both key factors influencing gaps in care for congenital heart ...

NICVD Assistant Professor says Tetralogy of Fallot is most common, recommends early diagnosis and timely surgery ...

Acyanotic heart disease is a type of congenital heart defect that causes abnormal blood flow. It can range from mild to severe. Babies with the condition can seem out of breath and fatigued.

Heart failure may occur at a younger age for a number of reasons, such as inherited heart disease or problems with the heart’s rhythm. Other factors, including a family history of heart failure, the ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Key Takeaways Congestive heart failure and heart failure are the same and mean the heart can't pump enough blood. Heart failure can be left-sided or ...

My husband is 74 and has congestive heart failure. He has what look like burns on his left leg. There is a lot of swelling, ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the term used to describe what happens when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. (It should not be confused with cardiac arrest in which ...