congenital heart disease

Louise Hubbard, Justine Ducker and Danielle Mann, from Norwich, connected after Louise shared the story of both her daughters being diagnosed with congenital heart disease.

For Louise, 33, it was the second time she had been given the "earth shattering" news that her child had congenital heart disease so she decided to share her story.

The mums hope by highlighting how common it is for babies to have congenital heart disease, other parents in their position will not not feel alone.

When Dr. Deborah Frank, a retired pediatrician, was in medical school in the 1970s, the diagnosis meant one of two things: “Either you had major congenital heart disease or cystic fibrosis, or you had a bad mother,” she said.

Almost 1 in 5 adults with congenital heart disease living in Israel had or developed an abnormal heart rhythm/arrhythmia during a five-year study, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.