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Heart to Heart with Anna

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A radio show for the congenital heart defect (CHD) community to let them know that there is hope! We discuss issues of importance to to enrich, empower and educate the CHD community.

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Heart to Heart with Anna

Today's podcast deals with a topic that all Heart Parents know all too well -- the emotional impact of having a child with a congenital heart defect. Our expert Guest, Yarrow Gillis, talks candidly with Anna about what it's like to have a child... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Now that more Heart Warriors are surviving to adulthood than ever before, there is a growing cohort of individuals actually entering middle age. So for the first time ever, there is a group of female Heart Warriors who are actually... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Guest Host, Rita Scoggins, interviews Heart Warrior, Laura Ryan, today about what it was like to raise two children. Laura Ryan is a congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries and DILV (or double inlet left ventricle) Heart... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Today's show features two Heart Warriors -- Guest Host Carol Raimondi and Guest Roslyn Rivera. Both of these Heart Warriors decided to go into nursing. Tune in to hear why Carol (a cc-TGA Heart Warrior) and Roslyn (an partial... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Dr. Wayne Franklin is a pediatric cardiologist specializing in the care of adults with congenital heart defects, and especially those adults with pulmonary hypertension. Today he talks to Anna about the advancements made regarding pulmonary... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Dr. Timothy Nelson is the director of the Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for HLHS at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Nelson and his team are specifically interested in the cause of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and finding ways to delay and... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a critical congenital heart defect -- meaning that surgery within the first year of life is necessary to survive. Several decades ago, HLHS was uniformly fatal (except in some very rare cases) and... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

For decades the medical profession was engrossed in finding a way to help babies born with congenital heart defects to survive infancy and early childhood. It seemed relatively rare for babies born with complex congenital heart defects to... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

The field of pediatric cardiology and that of congenital heart disease has changed a great deal in the last couple of decades. Once upon a time, people born with critical congenital heart defects were called "blue babies" or "cardiac... more
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Heart to Heart with Anna

Today's show features two very special Guests -- Michelle Steltzer is a nurse and the sister of a Heart Warrior born with a single ventricle heart in the 1970s. Susan Romanesko is Michelle and Greg's mother. She talks with Anna about what it... more
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