CT imaging showing the congenital heart defect of left heart hypoplastic syndrome. Researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital think they found a way to treat the condition by returning the heart to a fetal state the heart to repair itself. Image courtesy of Renee Bullock-Palmer, MD
As the population of patients with adult congenital heart disease grows, they are presenting to adult cardiology clinics and being imaged with CT. Many also do not have access or cannot be imaged by MRI, said Renee Bullock-Palmer, MD.
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