In developed countries, both the number of patients with Eisenmenger physiology and the number of patients with unoperated/palliated cyanotic heart lesions will decrease in the future. Simple defects, ...

Congenital heart diseases (CHDs), the most common birth defects, affect 8 to 12 per 1,000 live births globally. These structural heart problems, ranging from minor to critical, are often detected ...

The incidence of babies born with serious heart defects, known as cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD), rose in states that enacted restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court's ...

Credit: Getty Images. While most infants do well after open-heart surgery to repair tetralogy of Fallot, long-term complications are common. Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic ...

(NewsNation) — Anemia in pregnancy can raise the risk of heart defects in the child, a recent U.K.-based study found. In the United States, about 40,000 babies are born with a heart defect each year, ...

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

The incidence of babies born with serious heart defects, known as cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD), rose in states that enacted restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ...

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