_________The word congenital has appeared in 64 articles on nytimes.com in the past year, including on July 10 in “Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments” by Gina Kolata:Dr. McCully moved to Boston Children’s, and he and Dr. Emani prepared to see if the new technique might help tiny babies who were the sickest of the sick — those surviving on Ecmo. It was not long before they had their first patient. Early one Saturday morning in March 2015, the hospital got a call from a hospital in Maine. Doctors there wanted to transfer to Boston Children’s a newborn baby boy whose heart had been deprived of oxygen during surgery to fix a congenital defect.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2018 06:00 UTC