Conditions
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Cardiomyopathy is any disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively.
Pulmonary atresia (PA) is a heart defect that occurs due to abnormal development of the prenatal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
Pulmonary stenosis is a congenital (present at birth) defect that occurs due to abnormal development of the prenatal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Learn more about this condition.
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF or TET) is a condition of several related congenital defects of the prenatal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Learn more about this condition.
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return is a congenital heart defect in which the vessels that bring oxygen-rich (red) blood back to the heart from the lungs are improperly connected.
Transposition of the great arteries (TGA) is a congenital heart defect in which the large vessels that take blood away from the heart to the lungs, or to the body, are improperly connected.
Tricuspid atresia (TA) is a congenital (present at birth) heart defect that occurs due to abnormal development of the prenatal heart beginning during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
Truncus arteriosus is a heart defect in which there is an abnormal connection between the aorta and pulmonary artery. Learn more about this condition.
A ventricular septal defect is an opening in the ventricular septum, or dividing wall between the two lower chambers of the heart known as the right and left ventricles.