Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Congenital Heart Disease

Congenital Heart Disease - After the previous article we discussed what and how it is rheumatic heart disease, then this article will discuss other cardiac abnormalities that congenital heart disease.

Congenital heart disease is a disorder or the formation of the heart or great vessels near Cardiac. Talking about the time but not the cause. It means "born with" or "present at birth". Congenital heart diseases are caused by a crack or leak in the atrial septum, a result is a number of oxygenated blood from the left atrium to flow through the gap in right atrial septum, so that mixed oxygen-poor blood and increases the amount of blood flow to the lungs.

Congenital heart disease can be found or may occur in 1% or the 8 births 1000 births suffer from congenital heart disease. Although all types of CHD is present at birth and therefore had or birth, only a few known cases of CHD or prior to birth. CHD diagnosis is made when one week old baby consistute
Congenital Heart Disease
40-50% of the cases. And approximately 50-60% of all cases diagnosed in the newborn period.

If a large ASD hole damage then the only healing technique should perform the operation. If patients with congenital heart disease cases ASD do not do surgery then,

will have an impact:

1. Patients will feel very unusual pain complaints as symptoms of chest tightness, shortness of breath, heart palpitations.

2. Child's immune system is weak and child development will decrease. She was thinner, the weight is not balanced with kids his age. Therefore, the patient is constantly exposed to fever, runny nose and cough. If the patient's fever continued, the team Cardiologist suggested that these patients do surgery immediately.

3. If the weight of the stage, then the patient will be exposed to the pressure in the lungs, so that patients will be more trouble breathing, heart failure.

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