Emmanuel Brings a Fighting Spirit to a Tough Battle

Emmanuel Brings a Fighting Spirit to a Tough Battle

Fierce persistence and a nagging mother’s intuition that something wasn’t right led newborn Emmanuel to the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Heart Center on Christmas morning two years ago. His mom, Brielle—a veterinarian—noticed that he looked and sounded different from her…

The Heart of a Fisherman Never Gives Up

The Heart of a Fisherman Never Gives Up

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…

Kids at Heart Connects Families Who “Get It”

Kids at Heart Connects Families Who “Get It”

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…

Physicians with Heart: Dr. Dongngan Truong

Physicians with Heart: Dr. Dongngan Truong

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…

Sports Physicals Can Identify ‘Red Flags’ for Heart Disease

Sports Physicals Can Identify ‘Red Flags’ for Heart Disease

Summer marks a time when many parents are busy making appointments for their student athletes to get sports physicals. Required by most school systems to participate in school sports, the sports physical screens for many conditions, including heart disease. Where…

Child having ECHO

Pediatric ECHOs and EKGs Reveal Information About the Heart

Two of the tools pediatric cardiologists have when they want to gather more information about a child’s heart include the echocardiogram (ECHO) and the electrocardiogram (EKG). Both are noninvasive, painless and quick ways to learn about the heart’s structure and…

Project S.A.V.E. Prepares Schools to Save Lives

When sudden cardiac arrest occurs outside of a hospital, a person only has about a 10 percent chance of survival. However, if the cardiac arrest occurs in a Georgia school that has been prepared for such an event through Project…

Pediatric heart doctor talking to a child about their heart condition.

Atrial Septal Defect

What is an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)? The atrial septum is the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart, and an atrial septal defect (ASD) is an abnormal hole in the wall. ASD, a heart problem that is present at…

Babies heart being checked with a stethoscope.

Supraventricular Tachycardia in Children: What You Need to Know

A top-end heart rate for children is roughly 220 bpm minus the child’s age in years. Rates faster than that can indicate supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), an abnormally fast heart rhythm caused by an electrical short circuit in the top chambers…

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