A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...

Congenital heart disease or defect is a common type of birth defect that needs medical attention. The exact cause is unclear, but it may be connected to genetic factors or the mother's health ...

The Human Genetics Research Group of the University of Tartu Faculty of Medicine has identified a gene whose defect may cause congenital heart malformations in the fetus. The MGRN1 gene has not ...

“I don’t think anybody expects a transplant or congenital heart defects to be a thing for them, but it is for us, and we just take it as it comes,” Brenda Hadley, Karl Hadley’s mom, said. “Heart ...

When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

While we already have an understanding of the trajectories of babies who undergo different surgical/interventional procedures for congenital heart disease (CHD),1 much less is known about the ...

A new study from Mount Sinai presents a novel methodology for investigating digenic inheritance in human disease, identifying gene pairs involved in congenital heart disease. “Our research reveals the ...