Her daughter Bo, now three, was born with a heart defect which required several operations.
Nearly one in 100 babies in the U.S. is born with a heart defect.
Eisenmenger (I-sun-meng-uhr) syndrome is a complication of a heart defect that you're born with (congenital).
Some babies with tricuspid atresia have another heart defect a hole between the lower two chambers (ventricular septal defect).
Rachel Goswell, from Exeter, said it was vital she could sign to Jesse, two, who also has a heart defect.
Craig's Heartstrong Foundation was founded by Paula Lunt after her son Craig died from an undiagnosed heart defect in April 2005.
Mr Smith said surgeons found an additional heart defect during the operation - a 'shelf' of tissue which had to be removed.
Paula Lunt set up Craig's Heartstrong Foundation in memory of her son, who died from a undiagnosed heart defect in April 2005.
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Her husband has a congenital heart defect and is unable to work.
This hole is either a heart defect (atrial septal defect) or an enlarged natural opening (foramen ovale) that is supposed to close soon after birth.
Bj Babcock had surgery in 1998 for a congenital heart defect.
Mrs Lunt, 55, was unaware her son had been suffering from an undiagnosed heart defect which can cause hypertrophic or dilated cardiomyopathy and lead to sudden death syndrome.
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The precocious 6-year-old was born with a congenital heart defect and had a complication with a tube inserted in his right leg, leading to an amputation above his knee.
If someone has an obscure heart defect that could kill them during the intense workouts next summer or in a game, your own players may want to know that.
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Over the next five days, she remained in a medically induced coma, she told CNN, and doctors diagnosed her with a heart defect she didn't know she had -- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
But when doctors told Mrs Whitfield, who suffers from heart defect mitral stenosis, that she was putting a strain on her heart serious enough to require an operation, she decided to take action.
His mom watched White compete in the Olympics the same year Max was first diagnosed, and after hearing from doctors about the limitations her son would face, she says she found hope in White, who has the same heart defect.
"If, in future, this child should develop Parkinson's, or cancer, Alzheimer's or a heart defect, by that time technology would have progressed to such a level that you could then use these stem cells to fight or even cure these illnesses, if they arise, " she said.
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But it compares Vytorin with placebo, so it could just show the benefit of Zocor, and is in an odd population: people with a heart artery defect.
The cause of his death was "an organic defect of the heart's sack" or so contemporary parish records state.
Further laboratory tests showed that this defect disrupts the calcium pump in heart muscle cells.
At issue is whether a heart-plug procedure to repair a birth defect that is common in about a quarter of the U.S. population can prevent strokes in young people.
WSJ: Doctors Debate Whether Strokes Be Prevented With a Heart-Plug Procedure
They found that a mouse with a defect on the phospholamban gene also suffered severe damage to its heart.
The scientists found that people with this defect would suffer a chronic malfunction of calcium regulation in their heart muscle.
The patch is also being tested for a more common defect PFO, a hole that results when the heart wall doesn't seal the way it should after birth.
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