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Congenital heart disease is survivable, manageable, yet in the routine years between infancy and adulthood, sometimes forgettable. The Adult Congenital Heart Association is a resource, advocate and knowledge base for everyone affected.
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Treating congenital heart defects in adults is to understand the continuum of the disease from its infancy. The Adult Congenital Heart Association brings together valuable research, training opportunities and standards of care to help you help your patients and further define this specialization of cardiovascular disease.
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A Blog for the Congenital Heart Disease Community
Empathy for the Routine CHD Patient
As the first generation of adults living with CHD, I'm sure that just about all of us have faced an ignorant or beyond f…
An Open Letter to my CHD
Dear Topher,
I hate you! What have I ever done to you? I mean, seriously!? For seemingly no apparent reason, you have p…
CHD and Sports
Sports? Me? No way. “Sports” and “athlete” were never words in my vocabulary. My CHD diagnosis was not made until I was …
Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Chang…
Even though we are part of Texas Children’s Hospital, at the Texas Adult Congenital Heart Center (TACH Center) we see ad…
The Guilt of Living with a Heart Cond…
Throughout my childhood, my heart condition was never something that defined me. Growing up with it, it was almost like …
Empowered
I am one in 100. And after this past weekend at the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s (ACHA) 8th National Conference,…
Ways to Beat Stress
Stress, both good and bad, is part of life. Most of us experience the stressors of work, school, and family that we must…
A Message to Jimmy Kimmel and His Fam…
By now we’re sure you’ve seen the news about Jimmy Kimmel’s son, who was born on April 21 with a congenital heart defect…
My “Heart Family”
Throughout the first 12 years of my life, I was presented with a few opportunities to meet other patients with congenita…
Thoughts on the Eve of My Eleventh He…
Tomorrow, I’m having my eleventh heart surgery.* Whenever I’m about to have surgery, I go through the same emotions. Mos…
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