Critical congenital heart diseases, or CCHDs, are a group of life-threatening structural heart defects present at birth.

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Thangaratinam and colleagues aimed to shed light on the potential predictive value of using pulse oximetry to screen for significant cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn infants. One ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-aided readers achieved higher detection rates for congenital heart defects (CHDs) with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.974 vs 0.825 for ...

To evaluate the implementation of early screening for critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and potential exclusion of sub-populations from universal ...

A recent study published in Frontiers in Genetics demonstrates that combining copy number variants sequencing (CNVs-seq) and whole exome sequencing (WES) is effective in detecting congenital heart ...

It could be the effect of climate change. Or perhaps it's due to fertility treatments, multiple births or a mother's own health condition. There is no doubt, though, that congenital heart disease - ...

When you’re pregnant, it can be scary to hear your baby has an arrhythmia. But what does this actually mean? An arrhythmia is an irregular heart rate — too fast, too slow, or otherwise outside the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — Babies who were born to women who were exposed to statin therapy during the first trimester of ...

With advances in medicine and surgical techniques, the majority of children born with congenital/structural heart conditions now live to adulthood. The most important thing is to have providers who ...