Heart murmurs in childhood are detected at any age Echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose or rule out cardiac malformations As this tool is not always available, these children need a ...

19 children (12% of each group) were diagnosed to have congenital heart disease ... Conclusion: Childhood murmurs are sometimes transient and vast majority of persistent murmurs are innocent.

OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois announced surgeons had successfully performed the world’s first implantation of an ...

A team at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare's Children’s Hospital of Illinois became the first in the world to implant an extravascular implantable, cardioverter-defibrillator in a pediatric patient ...