Congenital heart disease, or CHD, involves heart defects and conditions that babies are born with. Sometimes CHD can be detected prenatally, but it is often diagnosed after birth and can present at any age. There are some common symptoms of…
Ollie spent his first Halloween at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Heart Center in the CICU, just 7 days post-op from his second open heart surgery. Mom Stephanie remembers that they had to get special permission to allow Ollie’s big brother,…
Although she had a few months and the support of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology to prepare, Karlee said handing her newborn over to strangers with the hope that they could save his life presented a whole new level of…
When Children’s Cardiology said that 10-year-old Grayson would need a pacemaker, one of his parents’ most pressing concerns was whether he’d still be able to go fishing. Grayson loves playing baseball and football, showing livestock, camping and playing with his…
Being diagnosed at two days old with Tetralogy of Fallot right as the COVID-19 pandemic begun caused Jameson’s parents a great deal of fear and anxiety. Since those early days, Jameson’s mom, Jamie, has managed the fear by educating herself…
In the mid-1990s, a small group of heart parents seeking community with one another started a potluck dinner in the Egleston Hospital conference room. What began as a simple desire to get to know other families traveling on the same…
Her enjoyment of the study of the mechanics of the heart and how it makes sense to her is one of the factors that led Pediatric Cardiologist Dongngan Truong, MD, MSCI, to focus on the cardiac specialty when she became…
Q&A with Dr. Brandon Harden, Pediatric Cardiologist & member of the Children’s Cardiology Syncope team Fainting or chronic dizziness in children and adolescents is often a sign that something’s not quite right, and if it happens frequently, they will be…
After I lost my 17-year-old daughter in a car accident in 2021, a friend said the news of our tragedy had traveled through our close-knit community like an “earthquake.” That imagery has stuck with me. The loss of a child…
October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month! Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology’s pediatric cardiologist, Rachel McKay, MD, took a few minutes to discuss how Trisomy 21 (T21) affects the hearts of some patients. Q: What is Trisomy 21? A: Trisomy 21…
