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Heart Smart: CCHD screening for parents (Arabic version)

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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect. Approximately 8 per every 1,000 babies are born with a form of CHD and about 280 outwardly healthy babies are discharged from hospitals every year with unrecognized CHD.

Winona's Story

winnie after surgery

During a routine prenatal appointment at around 16 weeks, Megan and Dennis found out that their unborn daughter had a heart defect. Learn how Yves d'Udekem, M.D., Ph.D., and his team performed a complex surgery on one week old Winona.

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