Congenital heart

Congenital heart's disease overview

congenital heart is classified as a structural heart disease group. There may be many abnormalities, congenital heart defects: Thong between heart chambers and/or large blood vessels, obstructive lesions, valve lesions, blood mixing ... congenital heart is still congenital still A difficult array of cardiovascular because they are less common than other heart diseases, repair surgery is quite elaborate and requires a lot of techniques. Congenital heart disease can be classified based on purple manifestations and pulmonary perfusion level. In which the most common diseases are: atrial ventilation, ventricular ventricular, and artery.

Causes of Congenital heart's disease

The cause of congenital heart is mostly not understood. It is found that there is a contribution of genetic and environmental factors. Causes that can cause congenital heart:

  • Mothers infected with flu, rubella during pregnancy
  • Mothers abuse alcohol and tobacco

    • Chromosomal abnormalities: three chromosomes 18, three chromosomes 21 ...

    Some proven drugs can cause teratogen: Thalidomide, Lithium, HytanToin, ..

    Symptoms of Congenital heart's disease

  • congenital heart symptoms are very diverse and plentiful, from no symptoms to severe, life -threatening symptoms that can be encountered. .

    • congenital heart Children may include nonsense symptoms:

    Do not gain weight, physical retardation

    Difficulty breathing, especially shortness of exertion

    In newborns, you can see that the lips are crying when crying, crying without breath

    Easily pneumonia and recurrent pneumonia

  • The congenital heart in adults may not have any signs, only discovered when accidentally going to the doctor, may also be patients to visit because of symptoms of heart failure: shortness of breath, edema Legs, large liver, floating neck veins ... or Eissenmenger syndrome: Purple mucosal skin, drum fingers ... P>
  • Concharious heart complications are quite diverse: infected endocarditis, arrhythmia, inverse embolism ...

    • Signs of early recognition of congenital heart disease

    People at risk for Congenital heart's disease

  • The mother is infected with the virus during pregnancy
  • Mother gives birth to high age
  • Mother had diabetes
  • Parents with congenital heart disease
  • Mother infected with system disease: Lupus erythematosus system

    • Prevention of Congenital heart's disease

  • Full vaccination before pregnancy
  • Weight loss before pregnancy if overweight
  • Healthy diet
  • Do not give birth at age> 35
  • Avoid sources of infection during pregnancy
  • Good blood sugar control

    • Diagnostic measures for Congenital heart's disease

  • Heart doppler ultrasound: is a mandatory and indispensable exploration. Based on cardiac ultrasound, it is possible to identify the disease, orientation for intervention, surgery
  • Computerized, magnetic resonance implant: Allow accurate diagnosis of anatomy of malformations inside and outside the heart
  • Large pipe heart: Anatomy, shunting, pulmonary pressure, pulmonary pressure ...

    • chest X-ray: usually only detect indirect signs, less diagnostic value

  • Exploration solutions: 6 -minute walking test, exertion ultrasound, .. to determine the level of disease and monitor the treatment of treatment

    • Congenital heart's disease treatments

    Currently congenital heart treatment There are two main methods: repair or skin intervention

  • Surgical surgery: All surgical surgery or temporary surgery (lung host bridge, Gleen surgery, ..) to prepare for the next repair steps. Repair surgery can be very simple such as atrial patch, ventricular patching but can also be very complicated as Switch surgery (plug in the aorta and pulmonary artery in the artery island)
  • Skin intervention: This is a strong treatment method in recent times, in which Vinmec is an actively implementing techniques such as artery valve replacement valve. The owner of the skin (Tavi), .... can interfere with the treatment of atrial septal bit, ventricular septal, pulmonary valve, ... without opening the chest. Tools are brought to vascular lesions. It is also possible to treat temporarily such as breaking the atrial wall in the artery island ... performing the skin intervention that needs an expert expert.

    • See also:

  • How long can it be replaced with skin valve (Tavi)?
  • What is the disease, is it genetic and dangerous?
  • List of Vinmec doctors can perform a heart valve replacement without surgery (Tavi)

    • Replace the skin aortic valve (Tavi): The optimal solution for people with aortic stenosis

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