Congenital Heart Defects
Status of Congenital Heart Defects in Nigeria: The Role of Cardiac Surgery
... with congenital heart defects in Nigeria is inade- ...of congenital defects and assess the impact of foreign car- diac missionary missions vis-à-vis the effects on the magnitude as well ...
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Pregestational Diabetes and Congenital Heart Defects: Role of Reactive Oxygen Species
... fetal heart of pregestational ...of congenital heart defects including coronary artery malformation in patients with pregestational ...
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Trends in Congenital Heart Defects in Infants With Down Syndrome
... syndrome–related congenital heart defects among all fetuses at ...with congenital heart defects of minor clinical significance during latter years, and thus underestimating ...
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Frequency of 22q11.2 microdeletion in children with congenital heart defects in western poland
... accompanying defects, primarily, associated with urinary-reproductive, skeletal, gastrointestinal, nervous systems and the organ of ...non-conotruncal congenital heart defects and at least one ...
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SHROOM3 DEFICIENT MICE SHOW CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS
... understand heart tube ...the heart (Hildebrand and Soriano, 1999; Lee et ...in heart tube closure and abnormal heart tube looping suggesting that unlike in the neural tube it was not essential ...
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Noninherited Risk Factors of Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring: A Revi
... with congenital heart defects (CHDs) continues to improve with advancement in technology and training in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery; however, lack of information about risk factors for ...
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Original Article Dyslipidemia in pregnancy may contribute to increased risk of congenital heart defects
... Congenital heart defects (CHDs) affect approxi- mately six to eight infants per 1000 live births annually and are a leading cause of infant death due to cardiovascular malformations ...
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Tropomyosin 1: multiple roles in the developing heart and in the formation of congenital heart defects
... Tropomyosin 1 (TPM1) is an essential sarcomeric component, stabilising the thin filament and facilitating actin's interaction with myosin. A number of sarcomeric proteins, such as alpha myosin heavy chain, play crucial ...
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Lessons Learned From Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects
... Newborn screening for critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) was added to the US Recommended Uniform Screening Panel in 2011. Within 4 years, 46 states and the District of Columbia had adopted it ...
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Maternal lifestyle factors in pregnancy and congenital heart defects in offspring: review of the current evidence
... with congenital heart defects(CHDs) continues to improve with advancing surgical techniques; however, lack of information about modifiable risk factors for malformations in cardiovascular development ...
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Population-based evaluation of a suggested anatomic and clinical classification of congenital heart defects based on the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code
... of congenital heart defects (CHD) has always been challenging, in part because of the diversity of the cardiac phenotypes, but also because of the oft-complex ...and Congenital Cardiac Code ...
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SERCA2a, Phospholamban, Sarcolipin, and Ryanodine Receptors Gene Expression in Children with Congenital Heart Defects
... between congenital heart defects (CHD) and myo- cardial calcium handling in humans, we evaluated SERCA2a, RyR2, PLN, and SLN gene expressions in children with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), a conotruncal ...
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Study of Congenital Heart Defects among Down Syndrome Cases Attending A Tertiary Care Centre
... Parvathy U 15 et al investigated the role of cardiac surgery in the management of CHD in Down syndrome. 21 patients with Down syndrome and congenital heart defects were operated. Four (19%) patients ...
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Maternal Smoking and Congenital Heart Defects
... Birth Defects Prevention Study enrolled 3067 infants with nonsyndromic congenital heart defects and their parents and 3947 infants without birth defects and their ...following ...
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Delayed Diagnosis of Critical Congenital Heart Defects: Trends and Associated Factors
... ical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) and factors associated with delayed diagnosis (diagnosis after discharge home following ...Birth Defects Monitoring Program. Congenital ...
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Temporal Trends in Survival Among Infants With Critical Congenital Heart Defects
... critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) and to examine the potential impact of timing of diagnosis and other prognostic factors on ...structural congenital heart defects (CHDs) ...
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Neurologic Status of Newborns With Congenital Heart Defects Before Open Heart Surgery
... Results. Neurobehavioral and neurologic abnormali- ties were documented in greater than half of the cohort and included hypotonia, hypertonia, jitteriness, motor asymmetries, and absent suck. Poor state regulation (62%) ...
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Prenatal Maternal Bereavement and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring: A Registry-Based Study
... registry also provided data on maternal smoking status for the 1991 to 2007 pe- riod. History of CHD in parents and siblings was de fi ned according to di- agnoses in the Registry of Congenital Heart ...
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Functional Limitations in Young Children With Congenital Heart Defects After Cardiac Surgery
... a CHD undergoing their first OHS with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and/or deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) before 2 years of age. Participants were excluded if there were known risks for neurologic sequelae ...
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Can folic acid protect against congenital heart defects in Down syndrome?
... birth defects restricted to infants with DS are few and results are not consistent, but there is some evidence that environmental factors might influence the occurrence of defects among foetuses with an ...
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