The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality. The ...

Melissa Lyle, MD: Hello, everyone. I am Melissa Lyle, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. Today, we will be discussing the management of Fontan patients. I am joined by my colleagues, Dr Alexander Egbe ...

One of the most important preconditions for the development of terrestrial vertebrates in the course of evolution was the formation of the two halves of the circulatory system. Aquatic ancestors ...

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe form of congenital heart disease which is always fatal without treatment. Though it has a wide spectrum of structural variations, it usually presents ...

The heart is a pump, and the blood goes round, and round, and round all the time. And why does it do that? Why can't it just have a rest? Well, the blood has to be kept moving around all the time ...

Effectiveness of interferon alfa-2a combined with phototherapy for mycosis fungoides and the Sézary syndrome. Nineteen patients with extremity melanoma (n = 16) or sarcoma (n = 3), underwent 90-minute ...