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Each year, more than 30,000 babies are born in the United States with congenital heart defects according to the National Institute of Health. About 1,000,000 Americans alive today have congenital heart disease according to the American Heart Association. Facts about congenital heart defects from the American Heart Association.
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ResearchThe Basics of Congenital Heart DefectsThe National Institute of Health provides some very helpful, basic overviews of congenital heart disease and normal heart function. Ongoing StudiesDr. Wayne Tworetzky, Dr. Audrey Marshall, Dr. James Lock, and Dr. Kathy Jenkins are a few of the doctors on the team pioneering advances in fetal heart surgery. Their efforts are helping fetuses diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening heart defect to be born with normal heart function requiring no post-birth surgical intervention! Dr. Simon Hoerstrup, Director of Cardiovascular Research and the Division of Regenerative Medicine at University Hospital in Zurich, is making great progress in growing living heart valve replacements. |
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