A congenital heart defect is a problem with your heart that you’re born with. They’re the most common kind of birth defect. There are many different types of congenital heart defects.

"Congenital heart defect" is another way of saying someone’s heart had a problem at birth. The heart may have had a small hole in it or something more severe. Although these can be serious ...

Infants born to Latino, low-income or limited-English-speaking parents are more likely to be diagnosed later with congenital heart disease than white infants – or lack a prenatal diagnosis at ...

A congenital heart defect (CHD) occurs when the heart or its blood vessels don't develop in a fetus properly before birth. This defect usually starts to develop early in pregnancy. There are many ...

However, it was unclear how the protein's loss might be linked to congenital heart defects. By disrupting this protein in different tissues in developing mice, the researchers have shown that loss ...

You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes joined a patient advocacy group of adults who have congenital heart defects, she’d never met anyone outside her family who was ...

Instead, the probable cause was “an anatomically and functionally significant Congenital Heart Defect,” according to the statement. Here’s what the statement said: “After a comprehensive ...

Bronny James, the oldest son of NBA superstar LeBron James, has been diagnosed with an “anatomically and functionally significant Congenital Heart Defect which can and will be treated,” a ...

When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Artificial intelligence can help doctors detect fetal heart defects, improving newborns' chances of survival, a new study says. AI-aided analysis of prenatal ultrasounds detected heart defects ...

Our multidisciplinary team has built our Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program to ensure that patients who survive into adulthood receive the appropriate patient-centered care that they deserve.

The diagnosis was made after an initial evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and follow-up visits to the Mayo Clinic and New Jersey's Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center.