What is congenital heart disease? What are the common types?

 The incidence of congenital heart disease, a congenital heart malformation, is not low, and it is more common in clinical practice.

The occurrence of the disease will cause patients to have abnormal clinical symptoms such as dyspnea, reduced activity endurance, and cyanosis. The treatment difficulty of congenital heart disease is higher than that of acquired heart disease.

Therefore, the harm caused to individuals is relatively more serious. Patients suffering from congenital heart disease first need to make a clear diagnosis of the disease through examinations, and then treat them through surgery, drugs, and other methods.

Although the continuous progress and development of medical technology, the ways that can help people treat congenital heart disease have become more and more diverse.

However, because each patient with congenital heart disease has a certain degree of difference, congenital heart disease can be divided into the following different types, and different types can implement different treatment plans:

1. Atrial septal defect

The occurrence of congenital heart disease, atrial septal defect, refers to the abnormal development, absorption and fusion of the atrial septum in the embryo during the development process, resulting in unclosed defects between the left and right atria.

For adults, atrial septal defect is a relatively common type of congenital heart disease. Atrial septal defect generally does not cause any symptoms in childhood.

However, as the age continues to grow, the congenital heart disease will cause related symptoms to gradually appear, and some patients may even experience right heart failure due to the overload of the right ventricular volume.

2. Ventricular septal defect

Ventricular septal defect is a relatively common congenital heart malformation disease. According to the different defect sites, it can be divided into three types: peripheral ventricular septal defect, subarterial ventricular septal defect, and muscular ventricular septal defect. Different types.

Ventricular septal defect with relatively mild disease often does not cause any symptoms in patients.

Or it will only cause the patient to suffer from exertional dyspnea and shortness of breath during strenuous exercise, and it will not cause abnormal growth and development of the sick child.

The more serious ventricular septal defect will cause the sick children to have symptoms such as weight gain, feeding difficulties, and growth retardation.

3. Tetralogy of Fallot

Tetralogy of Fallot is also one type of congenital heart disease. The occurrence of this congenital heart disease represents the simultaneous presence of pulmonary artery stenosis, ventricular septal defect, left ventricular hypertrophy, and aortic straddling.

The appearance of Tetralogy of Fallot can cause the patient to have progressive dyspnea and cyanosis. In the case of severe hypoxia, it can also cause the patient to faint.

Since congenital heart disease often has the characteristics of progressive development and aggravation, it is necessary to make reasonable diagnosis and treatment at the early stage of congenital heart disease, which can reduce the harm of the disease to a certain extent.

In addition, you should also take some protective measures to do a good job in the prevention of congenital heart disease based on the knowledge of the related causes of congenital heart disease.