Cardiology, Congenital heart disease
Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology
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Hearing that there’s a problem with your child’s heart can feel like a punch to the gut – and to the heart too. With the knowledge and compassion to care for kids with even the rarest heart conditions, the experts at our Children’s Hospital Foundation Heart Center are leaders in mending little hearts and sparing big ones.
The “lub-dub” sound you hear in a normal heartbeat is the sound of valves closing as the heart squeezes to push blood throughout the body. For some kids, there is an extra sound – a whooshing or swishing either during or between beats.