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Nuchal translucency and congenital heart defects: heart failure or not?

open access: yes, 2000
Objective To determine whether heart failure is the mechanism underlying the association between increased fetal nuchal translucency and congenital heart defects.
Simpson, J M, Sharland, G K
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Birth Defects Res [PDF]

open access: yes
Background:The use of chlorine to treat drinking water produces disinfection by-products (DBPs), which have been associated with congenital heart defects (CHDs) in some studies.Methods:Using National Birth Defects Prevention Study data, we linked ...

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Genetics of human neural tube defects

open access: yes, 2009
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are common, severe congenital malformations whose causation involves multiple genes and environmental factors. Although more than 200 genes are known to cause NTDs in mice, there has been rather limited progress in delineating ...
Stanier, P.   +2 more
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Prenatal diagnosis and molecular cytogenetic characterization of chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome associated with congenital heart defects

open access: yes, 2014
[[abstract]]Objective To report prenatal diagnosis of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in a pregnancy with congenital heart defects in the fetus. Case report A 26-year-old, primigravid woman was referred for counseling at 24 weeks of gestation because of ...
Yu-Ling Kuo;Chih-Ping Chen;Liang-Kai Wang;Tsang-Ming Ko;Tung-Yao Chang;Schu-Rern Chern;Peih-Shan Wu;Yu-Ting Chen;Shu-Yuan Chang
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Real-time three-dimensional ultrasound : a valuable new tool in preoperative assessment of complex congenital cardiac disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Evaluating complex cardiac defects in small children preoperatively requires multiple diagnostic procedures including echocardiography, and also invasive methods such as cardiac catheterisation, computer-tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Dalla Pozza, Robert   +3 more
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Congenital Heart Disease

open access: yes
Mitochondria play a crucial role in multiple cellular processes such as energy metabolism, generation of reactive oxygen species, excitation–contraction coupling, cell survival and death.
Mariana Casa de Vito   +3 more
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The anatomy of interatrial communications - what does the interventionist need to know?

open access: yes, 2000
Increasingly, the interventional cardiologist is seeking to close interatrial communications by inserting devices by means of catheterisation. So as to optimise these procedures, it is adavantageous to have a firm grasp of the anatomy of the normal ...
Anderson, RH, Martins, JDF
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Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects.

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2018
M. N. Plana   +5 more
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Nephronectin regulates cardiac valve development via BMP4-HAS2 signaling in zebrafish

open access: yes, 2011
It has been estimated that about 1% of live births carry severe congenital heart defects and 20-30% among them have valve malformations. Despite its medical importance the underlying cause of many valvular diseases remains undiscovered.
Patra, Chinmoy (Dr.)
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