Anomalous Coronary Artery (ACA)
An anomalous coronary artery (ACA) is a coronary artery that has an abnormality or malformation. The malformation is congenital and is most often related to the origin or location of the coronary artery. This condition may also be called congenital coronary artery anomaly (CAA).
Aortic Stenosis
Aortic stenosis is a heart defect that may be congenital (present at birth) or acquired (develop later in life). With aortic stenosis, problems with the aortic valve make it harder for the leaflets to open and permit blood to flow forward from the left ventricle to the aorta.
Atrial Septal Defects
One child in about 1,500 is born with a relatively common heart defect called an atrial septal defect (ASD) which results in a hole between the two upper chambers Of the heart.
Atrioventricular Canal (AV Canal or AVC)
Other terms used to describe this defect are endocardial cushion defect and atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD). AV canal is a complex heart problem that involves several abnormalities of structures inside the heart.
Bacterial Endocarditis
Bacterial endocarditis is an infection of the lining of the heart. This infection can occur in any person (infant, child, or adult) who has heart disease present at birth (congenital heart disease), or can occur in people without heart disease.
Cardiopulmonary Stress Test
Test to measure the function of the lungs and heart.
Coarctation of the Aorta
Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital heart defect involving a narrowing of the aorta. The narrowed segment called coarctation can occur anywhere in the aorta, but is most likely to happen in the segment just after the aortic arch.
Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart defects happen during this crucial first eight weeks of the baby's development. Specific steps must take place in order for the heart to form correctly. Often, congenital heart defects are a result of one of these crucial steps not happening at the right time, leaving a hole where a dividing wall should have formed, or a single blood vessel where two ought to be, for example.
Graded exercise test
Test to measure heart function during exercise activities
Heart Murmurs
Murmurs are sounds made by blood circulating through the heart's chambers or valves, or through blood vessels near the heart. Heart murmurs may be caused by a number of factors or diseases.
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a combination of several abnormalities of the heart and great blood vessels. In hypoplastic left heart syndrome, most of the structures on the left side of the heart are small and underdeveloped. The degree of underdevelopment differs from child to child.
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
PDA is a heart problem that is usually noted in the first few weeks or months after birth. It is characterized by a connection between the aorta and the pulmonary artery which allows oxygen-rich (red) blood that should go to the body to recirculate through the lungs.
Pulmonary Stenosis
With pulmonary stenosis, problems with the pulmonary valve make it harder for the leaflets to open and permit blood to flow forward from the right ventricle to the lungs.
Syncope / Tilt Table Test
Test to see what is causing your child to pass out or faint.
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF or "TET")
"Tetralogy" refers to four heart problems. In tetralogy of Fallot, blood flow within the heart varies, and is largely dependent on the size of the ventricular septal defect, and how severe the obstruction in the right ventricle is.
Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
Transposition of the great arteries is a congenital heart defect. Due to abnormal development of the fetal heart, the large vessels that take blood away from the heart to the lungs, or to the body, are improperly connected.
Tricuspid Atresia (TA)
Tricuspid atresia (TA) is a congenital heart defect that occurs due to abnormal development of the fetal heart during the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. The tricuspid valve, normally located between the right atrium and the right ventricle, does not develop properly during pregnancy.
Valve Repair or Replacement
Heart valve repair or replacement surgery is a treatment option for valvular heart disease. When heart valves become damaged or diseased, they may not function properly. Conditions which may cause heart valve dysfunction are valvular stenosis and valvular insufficiency (regurgitation).
Valvuloplasty
Valvuloplasty is performed, in certain circumstances, to open a stenotic (stiff) heart valve. In valvuloplasty, a very small, narrow, hollow tube, or catheter, is advanced from a blood vessel in the groin through the aorta into the heart.
