Congenital Heart Disease - PediaCast 483

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4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dr Thomas Glenn and Tawanna Nishibayashi visit the studio as we consider congenital heart disease and its impact on children and families. You’ll hear two difficult (and inspiring) journeys through hypoplastic left heart syndrome and its many challenges. We hope you can join us!

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0:00.0	This is PediCast.
0:21.0	Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.
0:24.5	And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.
0:29.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome.
0:31.6	Once again to Pediacast.
0:33.4	It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.
0:36.8	This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide at Children's Hospital.
0:41.1	We are in Columbus, Ohio.
0:43.2	It's episode 483 for February 9th, 2021.
0:48.1	We're calling this one Congenital Heart Disease.
0:51.5	I want to welcome all of you to the program. We have another important topic for you this week as we consider congenital heart disease. A congenital, you'll recall,
0:55.8	means something you are born with. So congenital heart disease refers to heart problems
1:02.2	that are present at birth. And these are typically structural problems with the heart.
1:08.1	So, for example, there might be a valve that does not form properly.
1:14.1	There could be a hole between pumping chambers.
1:19.1	There could be a single ventricle.
1:23.0	So there's usually two pumping chambers. So the right ventricle and the left ventricle, so there's usually two pumping chambers, so the right
1:25.2	ventricle and the left ventricle, but maybe there's only one.
1:29.3	Or there could be an issue with the big blood vessels that come and go from the heart,
1:32.8	or there could be some combination of these defects, and the resulting conditions can
1:36.0	range from mild to immediately life-threatening.
1:40.7	Congenital heart disease can be caused by genetic issues, also prenatal infections,
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