Tachycardia is a fast heart rate and there are several types that affect babies and children. All are treatable, but some are less serious than others.

TARGET is a group treatment program within the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry that helps kids, adolescents and teens get connected to mental health treatment more quickly than if they were to wait for treatment with an individual provider.

An abnormal connection present between two of the bones of the foot near the ankle, leading to limited motion and pain in the foot.

Lurie Children's offers pediatric telemedicine for virtual outpatient appointments. Learn more about virtual visits with your physician and care team by video or telephone.

Also called lateral epicondylitis, an overuse injury to the tendons that originate at the outside of the elbow.

Also called testicular regression syndrome, anorchia, empty scrotum, and vanishing testes, the gonads are undeveloped and absent.

A medical emergency in which a boy’s testicle twists and is deprived of its blood supply; emergency surgery will usually be needed to save the testicle.

A lump or swelling in either testicle or pain or discomfort in a testicle or the scrotum is not always cancer, but an evaluation should be made by a medical professional.

A congenital abnormality that results in the lower end of the spinal cord becoming fixed or attached in place.

Tetralogy of Fallot — or TOF — is a combination of four congenital heart defects. Learn more.

A group of inherited diseases of the blood affecting the ability of the body to make hemoglobin, causing anemia; commonly found around the Mediterranean Sea.

Lurie Children’s Thalassemia Program is the largest thalassemia treatment center in the Midwest and is a nationally designated Thalassemia Care Center recognized by the CDC.