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Stopping episodes of recurrent ARF can prevent rheumatic heart disease (RHD)...
Noonan syndrome is a genetic condition that usually includes heart abnormalities and characteristic facial features...
You should be investigated for long QT syndrome if you faint for no apparent reason, during or after exercise or emotional excitement...
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is characterised by attacks of rapid heart rate or tachycardia...
Some children acquire a heart problem after an illness in childhood, and this is called an acquired heart defect...
Some congenital heart defects are mild and cause no significant disturbance to the way the heart functions...
Although blocked blood vessels can cause both coronary heart disease and some types of stroke, stroke is not the same as heart disease...
Aortic stenosis may be congenital (present from before birth), but is often diagnosed during teenage years...
Pericarditis symptoms may be similar to those of heart attack and include chest pain and abnormal heart rhythms...
Heart attack is an emergency. If you have warning signs of heart attack, get help fast. Call triple zero (000) and ask for an ambulance...