BACKGROUND: Despite the high morbidity and mortality of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), treatment ...

When George and Vanessa Orihuela’s 9-day-old daughter, Daphne Rose, died on Dec. 23, 2022, they vowed to raise awareness ...

During an echocardiogram, reflected sound waves are used to create images of the heart. It is important ... “maternal mirror syndrome” where the mother’s condition is parallel to the sick fetus. When ...

Wild was 24-weeks pregnant with her first child when she and her fiance Luciano Reynaga learned their baby had a serious heart defect known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Baby undergoes open ...

Luciano Reynaga was delivered just minutes after undergoing heart surgery. When Megan Wild delivered her son Luciano, she experienced not only childbirth but also a medical first. During her ...

Broken heart syndrome can cause an increase in a cardiac enzyme called troponin, in the blood, that is also elevated by a heart attack. "And the echocardiogram — which creates images of the ...

Fetal heart specialists say most of the time when moms need a fetal echocardiogram, there are no problems detected. For a referral for a 20-week screening ultrasound during pregnancy contact your ...