News tagged with congenital heart defects
New strategies to improve treatment and ultimately prevent heart failure in children
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Structural cardiovascular abnormalities present at birth are the leading cause of heart failure in children. Nearly half a million children in the United States have structural heart problems ranging in severity from relatively ...
Folic acid to prevent congenital heart defects
May 14, 2009 |
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The Canadian policy of fortifying grain products with folic acid has already proved to be effective in preventing neural tube defects. The latest article published in the British Medical Journal by a group of researchers from t ...
New study suggests two causes for bowel disease in infants
Apr 27, 2009 |
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New research from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine is helping physicians unravel the cause of a deadly and mysterious bowel disease that strikes medically fragile newborn babies. ...
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Genetic defect links respiratory disease and congenital heart disease
Jun 11, 2007 |
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The same genetic defect that causes a rare respiratory disease may also lead to some types of congenital heart disease, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Fruit fly research may lead to better understanding of human heart disease
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have shown in both fruit flies and humans that genes involved in embryonic heart development are also integral to adult heart function. The study, led by ...
Oxygen test has potential to detect some critical congenital heart defects in newborns
Jul 06, 2009 |
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A test that measures oxygen levels in newborns can detect "critical" congenital heart disease, but there are variables involved with the test that require more study before it is adopted for universal newborn screening, according ...
No drop in IQ seen after bypass for child heart surgery
Nov 10, 2008 |
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The use of cardiopulmonary bypass does not cause short-term neurological problems in children and teenagers after surgery for less complex heart defects, according to pediatric researchers. The new finding contrasts favorably ...
Drug for erectile dysfunction improves heart function in young heart-disease patients
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Heart function significantly improved in children and young adults with single-ventricle congenital heart disease who have had the Fontan operation following treatment with sildenafil, a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction ...
Increased risk of birth defects after PCE exposure
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Exposure to tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchlorethylene, PCE) may cause congenital birth defects. A study of expectant women exposed to PCE in drinking water, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental He ...
Study examines effect of heart surgery on employment
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A new studying appearing in Congenital Heart Disease compares the careers and long-term occupational successes of men and women who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease to those of the general population. The pr ...
ACC/AHA guidelines break new ground in adult congenital heart disease
Nov 07, 2008 |
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These days most children born with congenital heart disease live well into adulthood, thanks to innovative surgical, interventional and medical treatments. That means that not only are cardiologists caring for a growing number ...
Environment plays role in complex heart defect
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A congenital heart disease that often leads to death in newborns is significantly more common during the summer, leading researchers to believe that the environment, and not just genes that affect the heart, may play a role ...
Scientists identify single microRNA that controls how heart chambers form
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have identified a genetic factor critical to the formation of chambers in the developing heart. ...
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