[Advance of study on vitamin A deficiency and excess associatied with congenital heart disease].

It was demonstrated that Vitamin A may be crucial for heart morphogenesis during pregnancy. Both deficiency and excess of Vitamin A could induce certain congenital heart disease. In the gastrula stage, vitamin A could play a specific role in the process of heart development because of activating many gene regulations, in order to promote heart development. In this article, the advance of mechanism study on vitamin A associated with congenital heart disease were reviewed.