Congenital brain defects are abnormalities in the brain that are present at birth. There are many different types of these defects. They can vary greatly from mild to severe conditions.

Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), NewYork-Presbyterian, the Pediatric Cardiac Genetics Consortium, and the Pediatric Heart Network have found a number of genetic mutations ...

Link Between Congenital Heart, Brain Disorders. News . Published: December 10, 2015 Download Article ...

Although studies of brain injury in newborns with congenital heart disease have focused largely on factors related to surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass, a substantial percentage of children are ...

A Caucasian male infant, who was studied at the Children's Hospital Medical Center, had 13–15 trisomy and multiple congenital anomalies, including a significant anomaly of the brain — that is ...

Recent advances in newborn heart surgery have greatly reduced brain injuries in infants with congenital heart disease, ... CHD, which refers to one or more abnormalities of an infant's heart, ...

Dear Anon.: Chiari malformations are congenital (she was born with it) abnormalities of the base of the brain, including the brainstem and cerebellum. They are more prevalent than previously ...

Foetal abnormalities, also known as congenital disorders, congenital anomalies, or birth defects, are structural or functional anomalies that develop during pregnancy.