BACKGROUND: Bisphenol F (BPF) is a common substitute for bisphenol A and the most prevalent bisphenol compound in diverse ...

BACKGROUND: Congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common birth defect and a leading cause of infant mortality, is ...

Testing for the prothrombin 20210 mutation, also called factor II mutation, may have been offered by your doctor because you or someone in your family, has had (1) a blood clot in one of the deep ...

Cardiac pathologies are the second most frequent risk factor (RF) in children with arterial ischemic stroke (AIS). This study aimed to analyze RFs for AIS in children with cardiac disease and cardiac ...

The heart transplant allocation system is evolving in response to increasing demand for donor organs, technological advances, and changes in medical decision-making. In this evolving landscape, the ...

A family history of myocardial infarction influences the risk of cardiovascular disease. The risk is highest when parental cardiac damage occurs at a younger age. However, it is still unknown whether ...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a heritable heart muscle disease associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The only treatment proven to reduce this risk is an implantable ...

Fifty years ago, many children born with complex CHD could only, at best, be palliated for the first year(s) of life if at all. In the 1970s and 1980s, several surgical innovative procedures were ...

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Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have notified the American Heart Association that they have completed a review into concerns about the integrity of certain data generated ...

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Introduction: Prior studies have shown the association between oral infection, incident stroke and atrial fibrillation (AF) a cause of cardioembolic stroke. However, the impact of preventative oral ...