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Best Children's Hospitals: Heart and Heart Surgery

by Mary Beth Sammons, Posted Aug 19th 2010 5:00PM

Children's Hospital Boston has a 98.5 percent survival rate. Credit: Children's Hospital Boston
When your child is ill, only the best care is good enough. So we're highlighting the hospitals that are leading the way in research, ...One out of every 100 infants born in the United States is born with a congenital heart defect, making it the most commonly occurring birth defect.
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Alternative celebrations for kids with health issues

by Heather Craven, Posted Nov 3rd 2006 5:00PM

Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of my youngest son's heart surgery. He was born with a congenital heart defect called a coarctation of the aorta. This meant that the lower half of his body received little blood flow or nourishment and the ...
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Complications in children and surgery

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 24th 2006 5:00PM

Having a child undergo surgery is difficult for everyone. I know this from when our 2 year old underwent heart surgery when he was 2 months old. We were anxious, but we attempted to hide it from our child. It's good we did. According to an article in ...
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Great kid photo: Four Iraqi children leave hospital after heart surgery

by Jay Allen, Posted Dec 28th 2005 11:04AM

Kudos to the Associated Press for this fabulous picture of Ashjean Kaleb, Asaid S. Abd. Sibreai, Wsam Rabea, and Sivar Mohammed, four Iraqi children who flew to the States recently to have heart surgery operations in New York. According to WCBS-TV, ...
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