27 percent reduction in conotruncal defects, or severe
heart outflow tract abnormalities; 23 percent reduction in coarctation of the aorta — a narrowing of the major artery (the aorta) that carries blood to the body; 15 percent reduction in atrial and ventricular septal defects — holes in the wall separating heart chambers; however, no changes were seen with regard to chromosomally associated defects — abnormality in the number of an infant's chromosomes.
Not exact matches
In addition to the vascular calcification in the arteries of his stomach and legs which had already been known about, the superior image allowed doctors to spot three small areas of calcification near to the
outflow tracts of the
heart which had hitherto escaped their notice.
Conotruncal defects are abnormalities in the
heart's
outflow tracts — the pathways that carry blood from the
heart to its connected arteries.
Discovered a series of signaling events beginning with the morphogen Sonic hedgehog (Shh) that are essential for guiding a population of late cardiac progenitor cells in the
outflow tract of the
heart.
The
heart muscle might hypertrophy due to hypertension or problems with the
outflow tract of the aorta.
(ref1, ref2, ref3) Using echocardiography [= Complete two - dimensional, m - mode, color and spectral Doppler echocardiography = (ref)-RSB-; the drug appeared effective in lowering the abnormally high pressure found within the
hearts of these cats (In HCM, your cat's left ventricular
outflow tract pressure goes up due to the ballooned muscle blocking the
outflow of blood = left ventricular
outflow tract (= LVOT obstruction.