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77CHD - The Most Common Birth Defect
Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common birth defects. CHD affects 8 out of every 1,000 newborns. Each year, more than 35,000 babies in the United States are born with congenital heart defects....
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72Adults Living with Congenital Heart Defects
Currently, there are approximately one million adults in the United States living with congenital heart defects (CHD). Due to increased survival, this number increases by about 5% every year. These numbers...
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77You could have a heart tumor and not even know it.
When I was 39 years old I had an experience that changed my life. I had a heart tumor. For one thing I didn't even know that heart tumors existed or that you could actually survive one. I knew about blood...
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65Open heart sugery - the girl who saw it all
Ramya, my elder sister’s daughter visited our place after 3 long years. Their family recently shifted back to India from Dubai. It was so pleasurable to be in the company of Ramya’s unassuming husband...
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85REDUCING PROJECT DURATION
No project is implemented in isolation. Events happening around the project may affect its progress. A nation-wide strike, an un-expected calamity or an abrupt economic change may bring the project to a...
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63Faith In A Surgeon's Hands
The drive from Lebanon, Missouri to Springfield, Missouri was a long quiet one. I glanced at my wife of 27 years and saw a tear rolling down her cheek. It was all finally sinking in. I pulled the car over and...
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56Look after your body
Right now a man lies in Intensive Care at a major hospital after undergoing open heart surgery just 24 hours ago. This man is very close to me, and I don't know that I will identify him during this hub. I...
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5546 Candles lead to 47
This poem was written in October, 2008 and recently rediscovered and published with no changes. This was quite a significant year for me personally as I had open heart surgery on Easter Monday of this year...
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50What to do next.
When you turn 50 as I did 5 months ago, you start to feel your age. I'm 5'9" weight about 180. No history of diabetes, heart disease, or high cholestrol in our family. Being the youngest in the family...
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55What Is Oral Chelation And Why Do I Care
I was not thinking about oral chelation that fine spring day in 1995 when I suddenly realized I had developed a skippy heartbeat that was extremely attention-getting. Having just finished my morning workout...
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