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deaths are congenital heart disease (303,000), followed by neural tube defects (65,000). Much of the language used for describing congenital conditions...

A congenital heart defect (CHD), also known as a congenital heart anomaly, congenital cardiovascular malformation, and congenital heart disease, is a...

Congenital syphilis is syphilis that occurs when a mother with untreated syphilis passes the infection to her baby during pregnancy or at birth. It may...

Gastrointestinal diseases (abbrev. GI diseases or GI illnesses) refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, namely the esophagus, stomach,...

Hirschsprung's disease can also present as part of multi system disorders, such as: Bardet–Biedl syndrome Cartilage–hair hypoplasia Congenital central hypoventilation...

such as tandem mass spectrometry that can detect a wider variety of congenital diseases. The blood samples can be used for a variety of metabolic tests to...

Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) occurs when a human fetus is infected with the rubella virus (German measles) via maternal-fetal transmission and develops...

Junction Obstruction or UPJO; although most cases are congenital, some are acquired. Many renal diseases are diagnosed on the basis of a detailed medical history...

Congenital cataracts are a lens opacity that is present at birth. Congenital cataracts occur in a broad range of severity. Some lens opacities do not progress...

Gunther disease is a congenital form of erythropoietic porphyria. The word porphyria originated from the Greek word porphura. Porphura actually means...

of NIH Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN)) Retrieved June 2011 Medscape - Diseases of Tetrapyrrole Metabolism - Refsum Disease and the Hepatic...

of the most common laryngeal congenital disease in infancy and public education about the signs and symptoms of the disease is lacking. In infantile laryngomalacia...

Toxoplasma gondii, and in the United States, most cases are acquired congenitally. The most common symptom is decreased visual acuity in one eye. The diagnosis...

mother to baby during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis. Other diseases caused by Treponema bacteria include yaws (T. pallidum subspecies...

Congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMS) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by defects of several types at the neuromuscular junction. The effects...

the inherited cystic kidney diseases with an incidence of 1:500 live births. Studies show that 10% of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients being treated...

Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel...

rubella and 43 cases of congenital rubella syndrome were reported to the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases between October 15,...

understanding of causes of diseases and the classification of diseases; thus, regarding any particular condition or disease, as more root causes are discovered...

Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), also often known as Kostmann syndrome or disease, is a group of rare disorders that affect myelopoiesis, causing a...