Fact Sheets

Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery
Pediatric congenital heart surgery is a procedure to correct a structural problem in a child's heart. Learn about this procedure.
Congenital Heart Disease
Congenital heart disease refers to a structural problem that has affected the way the heart or major blood vessels have formed. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Adult congenital heart disease is a type of defect in one or more structures of the heart that occurs before birth. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
Heart Failure Surgery
Heart surgery for heart failure helps repair a variety of heart conditions and disorders.
Coarctation of the Aorta
A congenital anomaly in which part of the aorta is narrowed, resulting in reduced blood flow to the lower body and legs.
Atrioventricular Septal Defect
A congenital heart defect characterized by holes in the heart where there are normally walls that separate different heart chambers, as well as abnormal heart valves that leak.
Tricuspid Atresia
Tricuspid atresia is a rare, life-threatening birth defect of the heart. It occurs when the tricuspid valve, one of the heart's four valves, does not form during fetal development, thereby disrupting the normal flow of blood through the heart.
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a congenital heart defect that leaves a small hole in a premature baby's heart. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
D-Transposition of the Great Arteries
A life-threatening heart birth defect that interferes with normal blood flow through the heart. The heart's two great arteries, the aorta and main pulmonary artery, are switched, limiting the heart's ability to provide the body with oxygen-rich blood and preventing oxygen-poor blood from getting to the lung.
Truncus Arteriosus
Truncus arteriosus is a rare congenital heart defect in which the heart's two main arteries don't form correctly during fetal development. It changes the way that blood moves through the heart and lungs and throughout the body.