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Two-year-old Gulbadan was born with a heart defect, a condition called patent ductus arteriosus.

The zoo said Thursday that a preliminary necropsy revealed that Avi had a patent ductus arteriosus, an opening between the two major blood vessels leading from the heart that should have closed by birth.

The team did not observe any negative effects of the drug, except for a decrease in the blood flow from placenta to fetus through a shunt between the placenta and fetus called the ductus venosus.

The New York Times cited the family as saying the child suffered from patent ductus arteriosus, a congenital heart disease.

The Ghandour family acknowledged that Layla suffered from patent ductus arteriosus, a congenital heart disease commonly described as a hole in the heart.