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Folate supplementation for prevention of congenital heart defects and low birth weight: an update.

open access: yesCardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2019
Women planning a pregnancy and pregnant women in the first trimester are recommended to use folate-containing supplements in order to prevent neural tube defects.
R. Obeid, W. Holzgreve, K. Pietrzik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microcephaly is associated with impaired educational development in children with congenital heart disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
ObjectivesThis study aims to evaluate the school careers of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and microcephaly.MethodsAn exploratory online survey was conducted on patients from a previous study on somatic development in children with CHD in ...
Constanze Pfitzer   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Embryonic Ethanol Exposure Affects Early- and Late-Added Cardiac Precursors and Produces Long-Lasting Heart Chamber Defects in Zebrafish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Drinking mothers expose their fetuses to ethanol, which produces birth defects: craniofacial defects, cognitive impairment, sensorimotor disabilities and organ deformities, collectively termed as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Various congenital
Marrs, James A., Sarmah, Swapnalee
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HEART DEFECTS

open access: yes, 2023
A heart defect is an anomaly in the structure of this organ, which affects its work to one degree or another. this is a persistent pathological change in the structure of the heart that violates its function. Heart defects (vitia cordis) are congenital or acquired anomalies and deformities of the heart valves, openings or partitions between the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Congenital Heart Defects in the United States: Estimating the Magnitude of the Affected Population in 2010

open access: yesCirculation, 2016
Background Because of advancements in care, there has been a decline in mortality from congenital heart defects (CHD) over the last several decades. However, there are no current empirical data documenting the number of people living with CHD in the ...
S. Gilboa   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conditional Creation and Rescue of Nipbl-Deficiency in Mice Reveals Multiple Determinants of Risk for Congenital Heart Defects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Elucidating the causes of congenital heart defects is made difficult by the complex morphogenesis of the mammalian heart, which takes place early in development, involves contributions from multiple germ layers, and is controlled by many genes.
Calof, Anne L.   +10 more
core   +9 more sources

Dynamic Views of Structure and Function during Heart Morphogenesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Congenital heart defects remain the most common birth defect in humans, occurring in over 1% of live births. The high prevalence of cardiac malformations can be partially attributed to limited knowledge regarding the embryonic roots of the disease.
Forouhar, Arian Soroush
core   +1 more source

Congenital heart defects in IVF/ICSI pregnancy: systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesUltrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2018
There is no consensus in current practice guidelines on whether conception by in-vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) techniques is an indication for performing a fetal echocardiogram.
V. Giorgione   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dynamics of lattice spins as a model of arrhythmia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
We consider evolution of initial disturbances in spatially extended systems with autonomous rhythmic activity, such as the heart. We consider the case when the activity is stable with respect to very smooth (changing little across the medium ...
A. T. Winfree   +19 more
core   +2 more sources

Association Between Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation and Congenital Heart Defects in Offspring in Birth Cohorts From Denmark and Norway

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Evidence linking individual‐level maternal folic acid supplementation to offspring risk of congenital heart defects is lacking. We investigated whether folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy reduces offspring risk of heart defects in 2 ...
N. Øyen   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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