(Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Allegheny Health Network)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, (AHN), AHN Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh announced the launch today of its comprehensive Adult Congenital Heart Center, which is a regional resource for patients with abnormal heart chamber structures, holes in the heart, malformed valves and other heart defects. This center is led by Allegheny Health Network’s Nael Aldweib, MD, who is a board-certified cardiologist that specializes in congenital heart disease and heart failure. Up to 2.4 million Americans have some form of congenital heart disease (CHD), and that number continues to grow, according to the American Heart Association.