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 fetal 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 fetal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
Tetralogy of Fallot is a condition of several related congenital defects that occur due to abnormal development of the fetal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
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 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 fetal heart beginning during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
Truncus arteriosus is a congenital (present at birth) defect that occurs due to abnormal development of the fetal heart during the first eight weeks of pregnancy.
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.