If you would like to make a donation to help Trevors Allstars achieve their fund raising goal this year, please use the button to the left. Congenital Heart Defects cause one or more portions of the heart to develop abnormally. Absent, narrow or leaky heart valves and blood vessels, holes in the walls between chambers, transposed arteries and under-development or total absence of one or more components are all possible. * Occurs in 8 of every 1,000 live births * 32,000 babies with CHD every year in the U.S. alone * Atleast 35 distinct forms recognized * Mortality from CHD is decreasing * But CHD incidence has not declined