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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - There's a fetal medicine location in Colorado Springs that is helping expecting mothers with a special ultrasound. Southern Colorado Maternal Fetal Medicine is the ...

As we enter heart awareness month, it’s important to remember our littlest hearts. Congenital heart disease is the most common fetal malformation and affects about eight in 1,000 babies born in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHILADELPHIA – In anti-Ro/La-positive pregnancies, most fetal echocardiography screenings for congenital heart ...

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, found that most echocardiography screening for fetal congenital heart block in anti-Ro- ...

The detailed view he describes comes from a fetal echocardiogram. It’s one of the tools that provide an inside look. By around 22 weeks, the heart is developed enough to evaluate, roughly the size of ...

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 ...

Dr. Marlayna Despres is a member of the division of pediatric cardiology at the University of Utah. She has advanced training in pediatric, transesophageal, and fetal echocardiography. She sees ...

Of every 100 babies, one will be born with a congenital heart defect. In recognition of Congenital Heart Awareness Week, Dr. Heather Sowinski, a pediatric cardiologist at Helen DeVos Children’s ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Though it can be very difficult to find out that something is wrong with your baby’s heart, experts say there is hope and early detection can make a big difference.