Your child’s physician may have heard a heart murmur during a physical examination, and referred your child to a pediatric cardiologist for a diagnosis. A heart murmur is simply a noise caused by the turbulence of blood flowing through the obstruction. Symptoms your child exhibits will also help with the diagnosis. A pediatric cardiologist specializes […]

Coarctation of the aorta causes several problems, including the following: The left ventricle has to work harder to try to move blood through the narrowing in the aorta. Eventually, the left ventricle is no longer able to handle the extra workload, and it fails to pump blood to the body efficiently. Blood pressure is higher […]