Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1% of births per year in the United States, according to the CDC. About one in four infants with a congenital heart ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Riley Children’s Health is providing crucial early fetal cardiac imaging services across eight outreach locations in Indiana to help detect heart conditions in unborn babies.

A fetal echocardiogram can detect some congenital heart defects before birth, according to Al Fleming, a perinatologist at UnityPoint Health -- St. Luke's Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center.

February is Heart Health Awareness Month, and it’s a good reminder for parents-to-be to schedule that important 20-week ultrasound visit. That’s when parents usually find out if they’re having a boy ...

SAN DIEGO, California — Pregnant women with anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies at titer levels of less than 1000 ELISA units per mL are at minimal to no risk for fetal atrioventricular (AV) block and may be ...

Before he was born, Brooks Klingsporn received a cutting-edge cardiac surgery for a life-threatening fetal heart defect, HLHS ...

If you were told that there were "soft markers" for Down syndrome during your level 2 ultrasound, you may be wondering what ...

HealthDay News — Recommendations have been developed for managing heart failure in pregnancy and published online Sept. 22 in a Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series in Pregnancy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Pregnant patients with very low anti-Ro antibody titers of less than 1,000 units per mL have minimal ...

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