Children's Heart Conditions (Part 1)

About the Video:

Heart disease is an important issue—not just for adults, but also for children. They can be born with congenital heart defects or develop other types of heart problems. In this interview, an expert in pediatric cardiology talks with Ellen Beth Levitt about the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of heart conditions that affect children.

Part one of this two-part program addresses the following topics:

Infants and heart
Congenital heart defects
Genetic heart defects
Birth defects
Heart development
Blood circulation
Screening for heart defects
Atrial septal defect
Heart medications in children
Transposition of great arteries
Cardiac catheterization
Surgery for heart defects
Hole in heart

About the Expert:

Dr. Geoffrey Rosenthal is the director of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children, which is part of the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Rosenthal is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Related Links:

Dr. Geoffrey Rosenthal
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/geoffrey__rosenthal.html

Children's Heart Conditions (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhPHwPb50zA

University of Maryland Hospital for Children
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/index.htm

Pediatric Cardiology Diagnostic Center
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/ped-cardiology.htm

Child Health Information
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/health_info.htm

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Category:

Science & Technology

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• atrial septal defect
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• cardiac catheterization
• surgery
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