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View Post: How many Children are born with a Heart Defect? « Adventures of a ...
18 hours ago by Steve  
Which brings us to our first question: Why does the American Heart Association feel that the number is higher? Are there more heart defects occurring? Or are doctors getting better at detecting them? That's a question I don't have an ...
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View Post: Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome (HRHS): A Reader's Query
20 hours ago by Kenneth F. Trofatter, Jr., MD, PhD  
Fortunately mild abnormalities (such as isolated ventriculoseptal defects – VSDs) and even many complex congenital heart defects (such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome) are not associated with easily recognizable chromosomal ...
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View Post: Scarlett's Heart Blog: More Stressful Days
15 hours ago by Melodie  
A week later my OB said that since my pregnancy was at-risk for congenital heart abnormalities (because of the SUA), he wanted me to get a fetal echocardiogram (ultrasound of the baby's heart) to check for fetal structural heart defects ...
View Blog: Scarlett's Heart Blog - http://heartbabyscarlett.blogspot.com/

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View Post: Birth Defects: Why And What To Do?
Physicians Health
9 hours ago by Hunter   ...
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View Post: Cord Blood Stem Cells May Help Treat Heart, Lung Disorders
30 Nov 2009
They are hoping to understand its potential to treat common cyanotic congenital heart defects. The researchers reported that the transplantation, which was performed in sheep, was "feasible and safe." Both studies were published online ...
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View Post: Lauren's Heart: Hope~Love~Faith: How Congenital Heart Defects ...
24 Nov 2009 by Lauren  
I'm a kind, caring, shy, sometimes stubborn person with a special heart. I was born with a Congenital Heart Defect called Tricuspid Atresia aka HRHS. My parents nor the doctors knew I had anything wrong with me when I was born. ...
View Blog: Lauren's Heart: Hope~Love~Faith - http://laurensheart.blogspot.com/

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View Post: More Kids 4 Me: Sunday Snapshot
29 Nov 2009 by The Little Family  
Meanwhile, I secretly researched heart defects for hours on the computer and emailed other adoptive parents who had adopted children with serious heart defects. Every day we checked to see if Thomas had “MY FAMILY HAS FOUND ME” next to ...
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View Post: Viagra helpful for children with heart defect - WAFB Channel 9 ...
18 Nov 2009
17 (HealthDay News) -- The erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, boosts the heart's pumping ability in children and young adults who've had the Fontan operation to correct single-ventricle heart defects, ...
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View Post: Smoking During Pregnancy
US-Winston Online Club
12 hours ago by admin   ...
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