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April 2007

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The silent battle Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA While in the hospital, Denise learned that her stroke was caused by a congenital heart defect like the one that caused the stroke of New England Patriot ...
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          2007 - 29Avril-April  )

  bt   15-month-old gets a new life Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai,India “The child became more symptomatic in last 2 months when the family came to Wockhardt Paediatric & Congenital Heart Centre. Further advanced tests that ...
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          2007 - 29Avril-April  )

  bt   Sudanese doctor identifies fatal congenital disease Gulf News - Dubai,United Arab Emirates ... congenital muscular dystrophy' starts showing its symptoms in infancy with weakness and floppiness of the body muscles, extends to involve the heart ...
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          2007 - 29Avril-April  )

  bt   Northwest Center for Congenital Heart Disease Establishes Imaging ... Earthtimes.org - USA SPOKANE, Wash., April 25 -- Northwest Center for Congenital Heart Disease announces the establishment of an imaging network to improve cardiac services ...
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          2007 - 29Avril-April  )

  bt   Something for Cory: Teenager's fight ends Chester News - Chester,SC,USA He never let on that he had a congenital heart defect that filled his body with fluid. That in his short life he had five pacemakers, cirrhosis of his liver ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Amputee Golf Clinic WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA Jayce Hanson was born with a congenital birth defect, so he has short arms and is missing some of his fingers. He has also had both leg's amputated. ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   A heavy heart Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India Most often, this is seen in patients with severe narrowing of mitral valve (chronic rheumatic heart disease with severe mitral stenosis), congenital heart ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   AHA Updates Recommendations for Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Dental... Medscape (subscription) - USA ... and cardiac transplantation with subsequent valvulopathy, and patients with some forms of congenital heart disease (eg, unrepaired cyanotic disease, ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Vascular Solutions to Present At Deutsche Bank 32nd Annual Health ... Primenewswire (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA ... company that focuses on developing unique solutions for unmet clinical opportunities within Interventional radiology and Interventional cardiology. ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Music of the heart: A cardiologist relies on his stethoscope for ... Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA Dr. Michael A. Chizner plays the guitar, but at work his instrument is the stethoscope, ''the most underappreciated tool in cardiology. ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Paediatric Cardiology update Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India T’PURAM: The division of Paediatric Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, Medical College Hospital here, is conducting its seventh Paediatric Cardiology ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   For East Valley woman, a breath of fresh air East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA It has been more than two years since Dr. John Nigro, director of the Congenital Heart Center, thought of establishing a lung transplant program here. ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   PMC's Heart and Vascular Institute joins with University of ... Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA Pocono Medical Center's ESSA Heart and Vascular Institute has affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System, opening a new gateway for local ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Uganda: Benchmark Heart Surgery Renews Hope AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA The first patient, Mark Atwine, 14, from Bushenyi was also a sufferer of ASD, which is a congenital heart defect, an abnormality of the upper chambers of ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   American Heart Association Rallys In Washington, DC All Headline News - USA Hundreds of cardiovascular disease survivors will be in attendance. A few of these will include a congenital heart disease survivor, a heart attack survivor ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   New Strategies for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Evaluation and ... Medscape (subscription) - USA Pulmonary venous hypertension associated with left-sided heart disease includes left-sided atrial or ventricular heart disease and left-sided valvular heart ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Call for collaboration to develop medical technology Hindu - Chennai,India He was delivering the Dr. VCMathew Roy memorial oration on `Triumph of technology-driven medicine with congenital heart surgery as a model' at a workshop on ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Dover donation shows lots of heart Nanaimo News Bulletin - Nanaimo,British Columbia,Canada Cootes collapsed during a basketball game and later died in hospital from a congenital heart defect. Saunders, who was a member of this year’s provincial ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Mangalore: Free Heart, Kidney Check-up Camp at AJ Hospital Daijiworld.com - Mangalore,India People with Congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, rheumatic heart disease and those who require bypass and open heart surgery can avail the camp ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Chinese Girl Gets Life Saving Surgery In Miami CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA Zhang was born with a common congenital heart defect, there was a hole in her heart and she also had an obstruction between the heart and the pulmonary ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   Manipal: 5-yr-old boy cured without surgery Bellevision - Mangalore,India Aortic valve stenosis accounts for approximately 7 per cent of all cases of congenital heart disease. Most children with aortic valve stenosis have no
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt   ORLive Presents: Patent Foramen Ovale Congenital Heart Defect ... Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USA ... Texas will host a live Webcast to repair a congenital heart defect known as a patent foramen ovale (PFO), a hole in the heart, in an 18-year-old woman ...
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          2007 - 25Avril-April  )

  bt     bt   Uganda: First Open Heart Surgery Done AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA According to Dr Tom Mwambu of Mulago Heart Institute, over 200 heart patients require operations for various simple and complex congenital heart diseases. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Stem-cell therapy provides cardiac benefit Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK A study presented at an American College of Cardiology meeting in New Orleans says six-month data shows heart attack patients who received the Provacel ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Heart risks at the finish line Los Angeles Times - CA,USA "People used to watch these races to see if anything bad would happen," said Dr. Paul Thompson, director of cardiology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Women do as well as men with heart treatment Reuters - USA ... and how it compares with that in men, Dr. Stephen J. Nicholls and his associates write in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   50 years on, pioneer heart baby weds on the luckiest day This is London - London,England,UK It is a common form of congenital heart disease in which holes in the ventricle walls allow oxygenated blood to flow back to the lungs instead of being ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   0luckiest%20day/article.do Barbara Wisnom Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA Wisnom gave birth at 37 to on Dennis, who was born nine weeks early with congenital heart disease and as an infant underwent heart surgery. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Women do as well as men with heart treatment Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India ... and how it compares with that in men, Dr Stephen J Nicholls and his associates write in the journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Stem cell therapy shows promise for cardiac treatment Austin Business Journal - Austin,TX,USA The preliminary results were presented recently at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2Summit in New Orleans. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Little heart opens up with love Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka One in every 400 children in Sri Lanka is born with a potentially deadly congenital heart defect, most of which can be cured through timely surgery. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Atrial fibrillation with left bundle branch block and intermittent ... HeartZine - London,UK We describe the case of a 78-year-old Italian woman admitted to the Cardiology Unit with acute myocardial infarction and permanent atrial fibrillation. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Dr Sridhar Kasturi Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India An aortic valve is usually affected due to congenital heart disease, rheumatic heart disease and calcific degeneration of the valve due to aging. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Doubts on stents help pump up heart surgery Los Angeles Times - CA,USA On the advice of her doctor, Gail Miller, a 60-year-old art instructor in Sacramento who had been diagnosed with advanced heart disease, chose to have ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   1 kg baby survives major heart surgery Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan A tiny infant is among the world's smallest survivors of surgery to correct a congenital heart defect, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center officials said over ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Infant heart disease: Newborns have a chance Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA One in 125 children in the United States will be born with some form of congenital heart defect, according to the March of Dimes. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Local artist stokes fires of creativity using clay San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA Carlick suffered from a congenital heart defect known as tetralogy of Fallot that required open-heart surgery when he was 5 and 17, he said.
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   With unbound courage, these are my true heroes Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA According to the March of Dimes Web site, about one in 33 babies in the United States is born each year with a birth defect. The Texas health department's ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   A soldier's sad ending San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA ... Joey – whom the soldier described in a MySpace.com entry as his hero – died of a congenital heart defect no one in the family knew about. ...
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   ‘It’s my heart’: Dealing with congenital heart defect Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA Brendan was born with the major arteries coming from his heart — the pulmonary and the aorta — attached to the wrong sides of his heart.
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          2007 - 11Avril-April  )

  bt   Boy battles with heart condition VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam Born in 1999, Mui Van Son has suffered from congenital malformation and heart disease since birth. He has two thumbs on his left hand that makes the use of ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Benefits planned for baby with heart defect Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA "They're very active and in grade school, doing very well, playing soccer. You look at them and don't even know they have heart disease."
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   New Guidelines Raise Heart Issues Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun - Ithaca,NY,USA HCM is a congenital heart disease characterized by the abnormal functioning of the heart due to thickening of the ventricle walls. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Study Identifies Steps To Improve Safety Of Renal Artery Stenting Science Daily (press release) - USA ... according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit in New Orleans, La. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Opening Day runner, 10, knows the meaning of endurance Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA Ryan, 10, of Maple Valley, has a complex congenital heart disease that saps his endurance. But when Ryan took off from the batter's box in a practice run ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Case complexity scores in congenital heart surgery: A comparative study of the Aristotle Basic Complexity score and the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   MENDING BROKEN HEARTS: 13-yo boy wants good heart to play cricket Jamaica Gleaner - Kingston,Jamaica Diagnosed with congenital heart disease, there's not much that this teenager who enjoys a game of cricket can do. At the best of times, he can only walk a ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Tissue engineering provides hope for failed human organs Standard - Nairobi,Kenya This damage can be the result of an accident, a congenital defect, a hereditary condition or other disease such as an infection. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Objective: The Aristotle Basic Complexity score and the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery system were developed by consensus to compare outcomes ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Gladstone scientists identify critical gene factor in heart ... EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA For example, half of the mice developed holes in the pumping chambers of the heart, which is the most common human congenital heart defect. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Girl two need assistance Daily Observer - Banjul,Gambia According to a medical report the mother presented to the Daily Observer, Kaddijatou Ceesay has been suffering from congenital heart disease ever since her ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   PMC doctors want to help you live to 100 Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA He explained four common problems affecting the heart as coronary artery disease, valve dysfunction, aneurysms and congenital problems. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Levi Schwanz Memorial Car Show this weekend Hutchinson Leader - Hutchinson,MN,USA Schwanz, the son of area car driver Derik Schwanz, passed away last October from a congenital heart disease, and the car show is a way to remember him while ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Sudden blackouts `are not necessarily cause for panic' Hindu - Chennai,India "Syncope could occur in children with congenital heart disease and blue babies when the brain gets switched off for a few seconds." ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Study uncovers a chemical signal crucial to heart formation Vanderbilt University News - Nashville,TN,USA Heart defects are the most common type of birth defect. Each year, more than 30000 babies in the United States are born with congenital heart defects. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Escondido teen becomes heart surgery pioneer North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA Brian's mother is still looking for an explanation for his heart trouble, which she said could have come from a congenital defect. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Surgeon makes Hue hospital a heart haven Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam As a student at Hue Medical College, Phu couldn’t stand to see low-income mothers or children die painful deaths from heart disease. ...
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          2007 - 03Avril-April  )

  bt   Health: In a heartbeat Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA If the congenital heart defect is part of a chromosomal syndrome (and it's usually not), the chance a child will have a defect increases even more. ...
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