Arpit Gohil is diagnosed with a rare congenital disorder that causes vital internal organs to form outside of the body. Even a slight bump could kill him.
Parents of Children With Congenital Heart Disease Needs Better Information
Physicians delivering the diagnosis need to do a better job of showing compassion, ensuring parents understand all their options and providing easily understandable information, based on a survey of parents of children with congenital heart disease.
Physicians delivering the diagnosis need to do a better job of showing compassion, ensuring parents understand all their options and providing easily understandable information, based on a survey of parents of children with congenital heart disease.
"I can do everything like a normal person and don’t have any trouble with my jobs on the farm," he said.
Arpit works with his father in the farms and plays cricket with his friends. About 156 such cases have been reported from across the world, so far.
Heart Ages Differently in Men and Women: MRI Study
The shape of the heart changes over time in both men and women, but the patterns of change are different claims a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study.
The shape of the heart changes over time in both men and women, but the patterns of change are different claims a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study.
Report Finds That Hospitalizations for Congenital Heart Disease Increasing at Greater Rate Among Adults Than Children
U.S. hospitalizations from 1998 through 2010 for children and adults with congenital heart disease were analyzed by Jared M. O'Leary, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues.
U.S. hospitalizations from 1998 through 2010 for children and adults with congenital heart disease were analyzed by Jared M. O'Leary, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues.
Nonsurgical Correction of Congenital Heart Disease
Common cardiac birth defect, referred to as hole in the heart , has been corrected in six premature infants without subjecting them to open-heart surgery, using a new technique.
Common cardiac birth defect, referred to as hole in the heart , has been corrected in six premature infants without subjecting them to open-heart surgery, using a new technique.
