On World Cancer Day, specialists give reasons for optimism about beating the disease. They describe advances in treatment, diagnosis and prevention that are helping more patients to live.
Heart patients with a dysfunctional or leaky pulmonary valve can benefit from a non-surgical procedure called transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement
Patients with congenital heart diseases often suffer from obstructions in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which carries blood from the heart to the lungs. These obstructions can be repaired with surgical procedures.