Babies with misshapen hearts: single-ventricle defects

A healthy heart has four chambers: two atria and two ventricles. However, some babies are born with a misshapen heart. These babies have one normal ventricle and one small or malformed ventricle. Often, they also have a hole between the left and right sides of the heart, allowing deoxygenated blood and oxygenated blood to mix.
Fortunately, these kinds of defects - known as single-ventricle defects or SVDs - are rare. Babies born with an SVD can be treated through a sequence of surgeries, as shown in this animation.
Surgeons are also developing a pioneering technique to start treatment from within the womb, in the hope of saving even more lives.
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[@dapsy1145]

Kindly, please help me in prayer. I just same news last week concerning my unborn baby. God should heal the baby and give him a new heart.

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The lines between science and magic are getting blurred everyday

[@SmokeMajic3721]

I was born with a VSD, pulminary stinosis, and transposition of the great vessels. They did not do any of these procedures to help my heart with oxygenated blood. I am now almost 30. As you get bigger, the VSD stays the same size. So, if you grow big enough that the hole is minimal compared to the size of your chambers, then the backflow of blood between oxygenated and non-oxygenated chambers is small enough that it doesn't have any major effects. Seems like the VSD would need to be pretty big to need to cut off non-oxygenated blood from flowing in the heart

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Thank you so much for this great informative content, I have seen a series of content like this but this one is different. it hurt how one can not show his emotions all because of health-related challenges

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Miracles ❤️💗🙏 thank you god for these babies, thank you god for these doctors

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Very well explained

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A bright News of a solution for complicate problems. Bits scary & nervous, for patients are babies. Knowledge, experience & cutting edge technology will come into play!

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