Erica Thayer   |   October 2, 2019

You found yourself asking “How does my heart work?” Well, your heart is singularly amazing. It beats 115,000 times every day, moving more than 2,000 gallons of blood through your …

Erica Thayer   |   July 15, 2019

Creators of the BT Shunt  The BT shunt stands for the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, often referred solely as the Blalock-Taussig shunt. It is named after those who helped create it — …

Erica Thayer   |   June 17, 2019

Episode I: Something Wrong When Dylan Van Dyke was born, doctors told his mother something was wrong with his heart. He was born with Pulmonary Vein Stenosis (PVS) a critical …