- Rush Children's Heart Center - http://www.rchc.rush.edu/
Provides tutorials about cardiac disorders, diagnostic tests and the normal heart for health professionals, parents and children. Includes illustrations, animations and movie clips to aid learning.
- The Baby with Tetralogy of Fallot - http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/chheart/care04.htm
Offers information for parents including brief explanation of the disorder, links and care of the baby awaiting surgery.
- Children and Heart Disease - http://www.americanheart.org/children/
The normal heart, defects, heart murmurs, kawasaki disease, treatment, school programs and feeding an infant with congenital heart disease. Information provided by the American Heart Association.
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome - http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/mollyjoan/index.html
Parent's personal account of her child's illness and surgery. Includes links, diagrams and information about the condition and the Norwood surgery.
- Little Hearts - http://www.littlehearts.net/
Provides support and information to families of children with congenital heart disease. Offers useful links, parent matching, email groups and activities.
- Carson's Heart Page - http://members.tripod.com/carsonsheart/
Dedicated to a child who had surgery for congenital disease.
- Transposition of the Great Arteries - http://www-umchc.pdc.med.umich.edu/parents/d-tga.html
Provides information about diagnosis, treatment and effects on the health of the child. Written for parents.
- Pacemakers for Children - http://www-umchc.pdc.med.umich.edu/kids/pace_kids.html
Provides easy information for children, about pacemakers, what they do, and the surgery involved.
- Healing Your Child's Heart - http://www.ucch.org/ucch/healthpages/cardio/HYCHeart.html
General information for parents about heart surgery from the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. The procedure, the hospital stay, what to expect as your child recovers, and taking care of your child at home.
- Pediheart - http://www.pediheart.org/parents/
Explains the normal heart and how it is affected by disease in children.
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