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Heart Development and Congenital Structural Heart Defects [PDF]
Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2021 Congenital heart disease is the most frequent birth defect and the leading cause of death for the fetus and in the first year of life. The wide phenotypic diversity of congenital heart defects requires expert diagnosis and sophisticated repair surgery. Although these defects have been described since the seventeenth century, it was only in 2005 that a ...
Sigolène M Meilhac
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Congenital Heart Defects [PDF]
Insights in Biomedicine, 2019 A congenital heart defect (CHD) is a structural defect of the heart or the great vessels by birth, which severely affects cardiac function [1]. CHDs are the commonest form of abnormalities seen in newborn babies, affecting 1 in 145 live births (British ...
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Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2021 Accurate segmentation of fetal heart in echocardiography images is essential for detecting the structural abnormalities such as congenital heart defects (CHDs).
S. Nurmaini +7 more
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Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2022 Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at increased risk for severe arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death (SCD). Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) effectively prevent SCD, risk stratification for primary prophylaxis in ...
Felix von Sanden +8 more
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iScience, 2021 Summary: Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) occurs in high pressure afterload, e.g., tetralogy of Fallot/pulmonary stenosis (TOF/PS). Such RVH is associated with alterations in energy metabolism, neurohormonal and epigenetic dysregulation (e.g ...
Philippe Chouvarine +9 more
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Umbilical catheter placement aided by coronary guidewires
Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics, 2023 Catheterization of the umbilical vessels has proven to be an effective and relatively rapid method for gaining central vascular access in neonates.
Katarzyna Gendera +5 more
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Why are congenital heart defects being missed?
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2020 Congenital heart defects (CHD) are still missed frequently in prenatal screening programs, which can result in severe morbidity or even death. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of fetal heart images, obtained during the second‐trimester ...
A. Nisselrooij +9 more
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Defects in placental syncytiotrophoblast cells are a common cause of developmental heart disease
Nature Communications, 2023 Placental dysfunction can affect heart development, but the prevalence of this causality has not been well established. Here, the authors use mouse genetic tools to show that the placenta may constitute a significant source of congenital heart defects ...
B. Radford +14 more
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International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, 2022 Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most frequent causes of death in adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD). Despite the rare frequency of its occurrence, the incident appears often when unexpected, and many affected patients had not ...
Alicia Jeanette Fischer +5 more
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Congenital Heart Defects in Adulthood [PDF]
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2011 More than 90% of children with congenital heart defects now survive into adulthood; just a few decades ago, survival was rare, particularly among patients with complex defects. The new population of adults with congenital heart disease presents a special challenge to physicians from all of the involved specialties.Selective literature review.A complete
Gerhard-Paul, Diller +2 more
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