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Congenital Cardiology Glossary
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Palliation
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Surgical or interventional procedures that improve symptoms and quality of life without providing a complete anatomical cure.
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Desmosomal Protein
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Structural proteins maintaining cell-to-cell connections in cardiac muscle tissue.
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Ebstein Anomaly
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A congenital heart defect characterized by abnormal development and displacement of the tricuspid valve leaflets into th...
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Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
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A congenital heart defect where all pulmonary veins connect abnormally to the systemic venous circulation instead of the...
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