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Mayo Clinic Q and A: Follow-up care for children born with atrial septal defect
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My grandson was born with an atrial septal defect and already has had surgery. His health care provider says he shouldn’t have any lasting problems; yet, he’ll need to have regular...
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Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Innovative procedures for kids with congenital heart...
Thanks to significant advances in techniques and devices, minimally invasive procedures can be used to treat some congenital heart disease defects. Innovative procedures using catheters through blood...
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Abby’s Heart Surgery Story
Abby before surgery Friday, May 29 Here's a note we received this week from Kathryn Kuhlmann, the mother of a Mayo Clinic pediatric patient: My daughter, Abby, who is 11, had heart surgery at Mayo on...
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Heart repair doesn’t slow baseball player for long
Austin Adamson, 19, was a day away from having heart surgery that would require a median sternotomy – “cracking open” the sternum (breastbone) to reach the heart – when he learned he was a candidate...
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Mayo Clinic Q and A: Hole in heart treatment options
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently was hospitalized for something unrelated, but during my treatment, I was given a transesophageal echocardiogram that recorded a hole in my heart. The care team at the...
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