Children suffer from congenital heart disease sometimes do not show specific symptoms. If parents find their children grow slowly, have poor constitution, do not love sports, or catch a cold or a fever easily, but no other clear cause, it is recommended to perform echocardiography to screen congenital heart disease. If congenital heart disease is developed to the stage of heart failure, there is no good treatment option, for at that time the heart damage has become irreversible. However, if early detection and early treatment can be carried out, especially treatment in childhood period, this type of cardiac disease can be completely curable, and it will not affect the growth and development.

Generally, after the age of three, surgeries of congenital heart disease can be carried out on children, according to individual differences, some even can be earlier. As for surgical treatment of congenital heart disease, which previously needs thoracotomy, now doctors can insert catheterization into femoral artery for patients. It needs only half an hour of time to be completely cured.

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