In this article I will discuss about a common heart disease called Congenital heart disease. I will try to cover most important types of this disease, causes and symptoms for heart disease conditions like this.
This disease develops before you are born, because connection between venous and arterial circulation is not very good, so the blood flow will be affected. Multiple parts from your heart, like: valves, heart vessels and heart muscles may be affected by this illness. This awful disease happens because your heart does not develop completely before birth, so we can say that it is a problem with heart function and structure. Congenital heart disease makes the most number of deaths in the first year of life. In some cases this can be treated just with medication, but in more severe cases will require one or more surgeries.
The mast important causes for congenital heart disease can be as a result from controlling blood sugar levels very poor for women which have diabetes while are pregnant, others factor that may cause this disease can be hereditary and another cause is taking huge amounts of alcohol and other drugs while pregnant.
This disease can be categorized in: cyanotic and non-cyanotic, I will discuss more about these two types.
1. Cyanotic
This condition represents a blue coloration of the child's skin because is not enough oxygen in the blood vessels near the surface of the skin. This happens when the amount of oxygen in the blood drops below 80-85%. The most common types of cyanotic heart disease are:
1.1)Tetralogy of fallot
This illness is caused by more types of congenital problems which may appear because heart will not develop as it should. This condition is the most common type of cyanotic disease and is the main reason for blue babies.
1.2) Transportation of the great vessels
This disease happens because the 2 main vessels that will carry blood away from the aorta and pulmonary artery are inverted. Main symptoms for this disease can be: children turning blue and shortness of breath.
2. Non-cyanotic
This heart defects develops more at children and it has a greater survival rate then the other one.
Most important types of non-cyanotic heart disease are:
2.1) Ventricular septal defect
This illness is caused by a hole in the heart wall between the left and right ventricles, which will make ventricles to work harder, because now they need to pump a bigger amount of blood then they would have in a normal heart. This condition will result in a failure of the left ventricle. Most common symptoms for this condition are poor feeding, very low weight and a lot of sweating.
2.2)Coarctation of aorta
This illness happens because the aorta between the upper-body and lower body branches is narrowed and this will eventually make the affected heart to pump harder than before, because now the blood needs to pass thorough the narrowed path. Symptoms for such a congenital heart disease can be: shortness of breath and a lot of sweating.
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