New Program At CHOP Aims To Help Child Survivors With Single Ventricle Heart Defects
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Thanks to surgical innovations, a rare but serious heart defect no longer is deadly for newborns. But as those patients age, complications are emerging. Now, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has started a new program to help them deal with such issues.
Every year in the U.S., about 3,000 children are born with a single ventricle heart defect – meaning only one of their heart’s pumping chambers is big or strong enough to get the blood where it needs to go.
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