(NewMediaWire) - September 12, 2024 - DALLAS A coordinated, multidisciplinary health care team to address the specific physical, psychological and developmental needs of children with Trisomy 21 ...

A donor heart saved Charlotte Woodward's life 13 years ago. Now Woodward, 35, is fighting for others with Down syndrome or ...

is rarely reported," even though about half of babies with Down syndrome are born with a congenital heart defect. One of the main reasons that people with Down syndrome are discriminated against ...

About 1 in 800 children are born with Down syndrome in the U.S. each year, according to the AHA report. Up to half of them have some type of congenital heart defect, along with significant ...

Assuming that your recovery goes well, you will transfer later to what hospitals call a step-down ... congenital heart defects don’t need treatment until adulthood. Bicuspid aortic valve disease ...

Approximately half of babies born with Down syndrome also have congenital heart disease. In this study, 48 babies with Down syndrome had congenital heart disease and 22 did not. The results from ...

Down syndrome patients ... individuals with Down syndrome,” Pedersen said. The increased risk of blood-clot-related stroke is likely due to the presence of congenital heart disease or diabetes ...

She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome ... hospitalizations of adults with congenital heart disease stayed stable from 2010 ...

However, congenital heart disease, or CHD, remains the No. 1 birth ... and this hidden population is being let down by the healthcare system. The USA’s Adult Congenital Heart Association ...

Stephanie and Robby McDaniel lost their son Graeme at just 2 and 1/2 years old to congenital heart disease in 2015 ... Graeme had trouble keeping food down, the family often had to devise creative ...