CHDs are the most common type of congenital condition, seen in about 1% of all newborns in the United States. CHDs range in severity; some mild CHDs resolve on their own, but complicated ...

Operating on paediatric hearts meant that the team needed to be more careful, with surgeries taking at least four to 10 hours ...

A bounding pulse is when your heart beats strongly. You may feel your pulse in your neck, wrist, or foot. Here’s why it ...

A phase 2 trial of ipilimumab plus nivolumab has met its primary end point of 12-month overall survival rate in non-clear ...

Infants who had defined symptoms for PDA together with echocardiographically demonstrated ductus and presymptomatic infants with a ductus diameter/kg>1,5 or with a left atrium/aorta ratio>1,5 ...

In Roslyn, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center and Gift of Life continued its 50-year partnership to provide life-changing ...

Naproxen sodium 550mg; scored tabs. Increased risk of serious cardiovascular events (including MI, stroke). Avoid in recent MI, severe heart failure, advanced renal disease; if necessary, monitor.

NSAIDs block the synthesis of prostaglandins and thromboxane, which are needed to keep open the ductus arterious, the blood vessel that shunts blood past the lungs in the fetus. When the vessel ...

He explained that newborn babies’ hearts work a little differently to ours, as there is an artery called the ductus arteriosus that naturally closes soon after birth. The descending thoracic ...

New Delhi: Doctors at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla successfully conducted a rare procedure to save the life of a 1.5-month-old newborn weighing mere 1.8 kgs, who was suffering from patent ...