Understanding Congenital Heart Defects, One Chicken at a Time

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

Approximately 10 percent of infants are born with a congenital heart defect, with one of the most common being persistent truncus arteriosus—a hole in the heart. In a healthy baby, deoxygenated blood is pumped through a one-way blood vessel to the lungs, where it becomes oxygenated and is pumped through an adjacent blood vessel back […]

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