CHOC’s innovative augmented and virtual reality tools support positive patient outcomes by encouraging ambulation, education and more.
CHOC-UCLA Health team mobilizes to save 13-year-old football player with undetected congenital heart problem
CHOC and UCLA Health’s treatment of a teen with anomalous left coronary artery (ALCA) exemplifies the unique joint pediatric heart program.
CHOC team using new device to close heart defect in tiny patients
CHOC became one of the first hospitals to use the Abbott Amplatzer Piccolo™ Occluder to treat patent ductus arteriosus or PDA.
Dr. Gira Morchi Discusses Heart Murmurs
About half of all children will exhibit a heart murmur at some point, but in many cases, the condition is harmless, Dr. Gira Morchi, a cardiologist at CHOC Heart Institute, tells “American Health Journal.” A heart murmur is a whooshing or swooshing sound made my blood flowing through the heart, Dr. Morchi says. The sound’s […]
