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Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

...eeds recovery in children undergoing correction of congenital heart defects, according to a clinical trial publi....4 years, who were scheduled for surgery to repair congenital heart defects. Patients were treated intravenously with either saline solution or tri-iodothyronine ...

Gene therapy restores sight

...Genetics.Their experiment involved dogs with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a form of blindness, that also affects human infants and for which there is no treatment. The disease involves a defect in the genes responsible for the retina's ability to translate light into nerve impulses.// In humans, LCA cause...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation safe for infants

... had RFCA. Among the infants in the study, 36% had congenital heart defects, compared with 11% of the older patients and 33% underwent RFCA for life-threatening heart rhythms, against 7.7% in the older group. The effectiveness of RFCA favoured older patients, 90%, against 87.6% in babies.A total of 12 major a...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...ave birth defects. They are the fourth most common congenital abnormalities, affecting about one in 670 newborns. The deformities are marked by obvious gaps in either the lips and nose or the roof of the mouth, due to improper fusion. Besides affecting a child's appearance, cleft lip and palate impede the abili...

Epilepsy Drugs Can Enhance Risk of Birth Defects

...hat their children will have problems ranging from congenital defects to slow development. A new study adds to growing evidence that many commonly prescribed anti-epileptic drugs carry this risk, but the researchers caution that not taking the anti-seizure drugs could be even more harmful. Dean and his colleag...

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

...se with Down syndrome were more likely to have had congenital heart defects, dementia, hypothyroidism or leukemia. By contrast, they found cancers other than leukemia and testicular cancer were "strikingly low" in people of all ages with Down syndrome. The researchers speculate that there could be a number of...

Gene therapy restores sight

...Genetics.Their experiment involved dogs with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a form of blindness, that also affects human infants and for which there is no treatment.// The disease involves a defect in the genes responsible for the retina's ability to translate light into nerve impulses. In humans, LCA cause...

Kids with Congenital Heart Disease Found To Have Low I.Q Levels

Babies born with congenital heart disease are at a higher risk for learning pr.... In a study conducted among 135 children with a congenital heart problem called D-transposition of the great arteries , all the children had the condition corr...

Crooked teeth may be due to evolution and overcooked meals

...r teeth are growing crooked and badly formed. Thus congenital bad shaped teeth may be a direct result of evolution than anything else. Human teeth are in bad shape, when compared with teeth of the other animals, especially those that eat flesh. If heredity and evolution have played a role in influencing the d...

Different Drug May Help Children With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

... population. Mostly incurable, this disease causes congenital heart problems in boys. It is estimated that 1 in ...search will be able to link it positively to other congenital heart problems that the children suffer from. Reference: http://www.cardiosource.com/journalsbook...

Epilepsy Drug Valproate and Lamotrigine Linked To Malformed Fetus

...st trimester of pregnancy raises the risk of major congenital malformations in babies. In a different study pub...ptic treatment drug Lamotrigine was also linked to congenital malformations in the fetus when mothers were treated with the drug in the first trimester of the pre...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

In a study done by scientists of England, congenital eye defects in babies like small eyes or having no eyes //at all may be traced back to the maternal infections. Infections like Rubella in pregnancy are known to cause such birth defects. Now studies have shown that infections such as from Parvoviru...

Cocaine may cause aneurysms for the coronart artery

...e wall of the blood vessels. This condition may be congenital or acquired. Often high blood preassure may be one of the reasons of the artery being thus affected. Cocaine is known to affect blood pressure periodically. It may take a coronary angiography to find out the existence of aneurysm of the heart. The ...

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

... a long way in reducing the number of instances of congenital birth defects in children. Reference: Pediatric Research, June 2005...

Simple Urine Test Can Help To Monitor Disfiguring Birthmarks

... to treat vascular malformations with drugs, since congenital anomalies generally do not respond to drugs," says Steven Fishman, MD, a surgeon on Children's Vascular Anomalies team. "This study gives us hope that with further research we'll be able to develop drug treatments." Urine testing for MMPs may help ...

Brain damage can affect children who stop breathing

Children suffering from congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) may suffer brain damage// if they stop breathing during their sleep. Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome is the absence of appropriate trigger mechanism that provides breathing over considerable time....

Treatment for heart damage in muscular dystrophy may be possible

... population. Mostly incurable, this disease causes congenital heart problems in boys. It is estimated that 1 in 3000 to 3500 boys suffer from the disease of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Researchers from University of Michigan Medical School had been able to use a chemical sealant called poloxamer 188 to protec...

A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts

The plight of poor children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) here moved NRIs into donating// $200,000 at a fund-raiser dinner held in the US by a non-profit organization. About 40-50 NRIs have offered to sponsor a child each. Some of them are keen to sponsor a child or two every year Acco...

Enzyme Responsible For Congenital Blindness

...sence of an enzyme in the vision cycle that causes congenital blindness in children. The researchers’ study regarding the congenital blinding disease // called Leber congenital amaurosis is published in the August issue of the journa...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

...resented in this week’s // The Lancet. PCHI is a congenital defect that affects 112 per 100,000 children worldwide. The benefit of newborn screening has been disputed for this condition but preliminary evidence suggests that enrolling children with PCHI in an intervention program by the age of 9 months can re...

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