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  • The Sentinel published Brave Ivy battles rare heart defect
    A BABY girl born with 'half a heart' faces having two life-saving operations before she reaches school age.Ivy Rose Adams, now aged 12 weeks, suffers from the rare hypoplastic left heart syndrome.The incredibly rare congenital defect means that although her heart is a normal size, it did not develop fully in the womb.Just one in 5,000 babies are affected.The condition, which inhibits Ivy's ...

  • Missouri Mom Tries To Pass Law To Save Newborns' Lives
    JEFFERSON CITY - Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week starts February 7 and one Missouri mother is hoping it will influence state lawmakers.

  • Spontaneous Gene Mutations Linked to Kids' Heart Defects
    Mutations in genes that occur spontaneously may contribute to congenital heart disease in children, according to a new study.

  • 10% Of Congenital Heart Disease Not Inherited From Parents
    Ten percent of babies born with congenital heart disease have genetic mutations that occurred while they were in the womb, i.e. they did not inherited the genetic mutations from their parents, researchers reported in the May 12th issue of the journal Nature. Thousands of children are born annually with severely malformed hearts. These disorders are collectively referred to as "congenital heart ...

  • Possible cause of congenital heart disease identified
    Washington, May 13 (ANI): Researchers conducting the first large-scale sequencing analysis of congenital heart disease have taken an important step in unlocking the cause of the most common type of birth defect.

  • Spontaneous mutations play a key role in congenital heart disease
    Although genetic factors contribute to congenital heart disease, many children born with heart defects have healthy parents and siblings, suggesting that new mutations that arise spontaneously —- known as de novo mutations —- might contribute to the disease. New research shows that about 10 percent of these defects are caused by genetic mutations that are absent in the parents of affected ...

  • Spontaneous mutations are major cause of congenital heart disease
    ( Howard Hughes Medical Institute ) Every year, thousands of babies are born with severely malformed hearts, disorders known collectively as congenital heart disease. New research shows that about 10 percent of these defects are caused by genetic mutations that are absent in the parents of affected children.

  • Mending hearts
    When Jezrel Jacob Morales was three years old, he was diagnosed with congenital heart defect (CHD) and was advised immediate surgery. His father, who works as a security guard and is the sole breadwinner of the family, can only afford to bring him as a regular patient at the OPD of the National Children's Hospital in Quezon City, an hour's travel from their humble home in Las Piñas City. At five ...

  • Girl, 8, gets heart transplant
    A Terre Haute girl hospitalized since January with complications from a congenital heart defect has received a new heart in a transplant operation in Indianapolis. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

  • Woman wants hospitals to test newborns' oxygen levels
    Lauren Capo is one of the advocates behind Senate Bill 4, a bill pending in the Ohio House that would require hospitals to use a pulse oximeter to test nearly all newborn babies for congenital heart defects before discharging them.