Rushani D, et al. Circulation. 2014;33:173. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent underlying cardiac condition in children with infective endocarditis (IE) in developed countries.

Children with specific types of heart birth defects who are under 3 or who've had cardiac surgery within the last six months may face an elevated risk of heart infection. Parents of children with ...

A woman's use of oral or nasal decongestants during the first trimester of pregnancy has been associated with an increased risk for certain birth defects, the authors of a new case-control study ...

Bacterial infection of the lining and valves of the heart is more likely among children with particular defects of the organ, research suggests. Children aged under three who are born with certain ...

The general characteristics of children with ECD and controls are presented in Table 1. The distributions of age, gender, ethnicity, and family history of congenital heart disease were comparable ...

Certain types of heart birth defects increase a child's risk for bacterial heart infections, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed data from more than 47,000 Canadian children born with heart ...

Children with certain heart birth defects may have an increased risk for bacterial infection of their heart's lining and valves, according to new research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart ...