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What the Winter Olympics and congenital heart disease have in common
| Kate DeTrempe
Doctors.
If you have been watching the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, there is a good chance you have heard snowboarder Shaun White’s name.
But you might not know that the three-time Olympic gold medalist was born with a rare heart condition comprised of four congenital heart defects.
The 2018 Olympic Games coincide with Heart Month, a period when national efforts are underway to raise awareness of heart disease.
Seth Hollander, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, recently spoke with KTVU’s (Fox 2)Cristina Rendon about White’s condition, called tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), which affects nearly 5 of every 10,000 children born.
Hollander explained that the primary dysfunction associated with ToF is that the pulmonary valve, which connects the right side of the heart to the lungs, is too small, making it difficult for blood to move from the hear