clenched fists and congenital heart defects. Dr. Jeffrey Dungan, a gynecologist with Northwestern Medicine, says children born with trisomy 18 also "frequently have central nervous system ...

Doctors diagnosed her fetus with trisomy 18, a birth defect that is usually fatal ... Doctors later discovered her heart was healthy, which is rare for those with the condition.

Tabitha was born five years ago with Trisomy 18 and a heart defect that was corrected early, Sandi said. Initially, doctors steered her and her husband toward comfort care and deciding when not to ...

“It is almost always lethal,” she says. Trisomy 18 causes several life-threatening medical problems, often including heart defects and organ abnormalities, and many babies with the condition ...

Some complications often caused by trisomy 18 include growth deficiency, eating difficulties, breathing difficulties, heart defects, facial malformations, skeletal deformities, and intellectual ...

Trisomy 13 and 18.Trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 happen when ... with X chromosomes and can cause growth problems and heart and ovary defects at birth. Congenital heart disease. Babies with congenital ...