Congenital heart disease is one of the most common birth defects in the United States, affecting approximately 40,000 babies each year in the U.S. That’s one child every 15 minutes.

"Most congenital heart defects occur in pregnancies that are considered low risk, which means the pregnant person is most likely being seen by an OB-GYN versus a maternal-fetal medicine ...

Source Reference: Hedermann G, et al "Adverse obstetric outcomes in pregnancies with major fetal congenital heart defects" JAMA Pediatr 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5073.

Fetal echo is short for fetal echocardiogram, an ultrasound test doctors use to look for congenital heart disease (CHD). This disease affects around 1% of births each year and encompasses a wide ...

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It’s “incredibly important” to detect congenital heart defects before birth, Mowers said. “We strive to pick up all serious congenital heart defects before babies are born,” she explained.

Advanced fetal echocardiography, a specialized ultrasound focusing on the heart, provides more detailed images when congenital heart defects are suspected. After birth, ...

A new AI program can help doctors detect fetal heart defects Doctors aided by AI more accurately detected congenital heart defects from prenatal ultrasounds The AI also gave doctors more ...

Congenital heart defects are a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality partly due to low prenatal detection rates; however, AI systems may help to improve detection on fetal ultrasound ...

Heart defects are the most common type of anomaly that develop before a baby is born, with about 13 babies diagnosed with a congenital heart condition every day in the U.K. and impacting 1 in 110 ...

Artificial intelligence can help doctors detect fetal heart defects, improving newborns' chances of survival, a new study says. AI-aided analysis of prenatal ultrasounds detected heart defects ...