Background Infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are clinically vulnerable to cardiac deteriorations and intercurrent ...

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If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood thinner (a.k.a. an anticoagulant) upon discharge from the hospital. Long-term blood thinner medication guidelines differ ...

It is often in the distal region (3p25-pter), but variations in breakpoints and a complex clinical manifestation exist, with congenital heart defects ... severe hypoplasia of the mitral and aortic ...

cardio.chboston.org Background Noonan syndrome (NS), a relatively common autosomal dominant disorder with an incidence of 1 in 1000 to 2500 live births, is the most common syndromic cause of ...

Correspondence to Dr Trisha V Vigneswaran, Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London SE1 7EH, London, UK; Trisha.Vigneswaran{at}gstt.nhs.uk Background A double ...

Heterotaxy arises from a failure of the embryo to establish normal left-right asymmetry and is known to affect 3% of infants with congenital ... patterning of the aortic arch, atria, and heart ...

Spine deformities, impaired mobility of the spine, restricted neck movements and torticollis should raise the suspicion of vertebral anomalies in patients with OAVS. Moreover, congenital heart defects ...

Correspondence to Dr Eric V Krieger, Seattle Adult Congenital Heart Service, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; eKrieger{at}cardiology.washington.edu This review ...

However, babies and children can be born with cataracts, or they may develop them as they age. A congenital cataract causes the same symptoms as adult cataracts—a clouding in the lens of the eye that ...