Congenital heart disease is a multifactorial genetic disease, while the genetic factors play a very important role in it. But the majority of congenital heart disease are considered to be the combined result caused by genetic factors and environmental factors together. In the aspect of environmental factors, it may be between the fourth week to eighth week during the mother's pregnancy, which is the key process for the fetal's heart development. When the mother is infected by viruses, the fetal's normal heart growth is interfered, therefore it leads to congenital heart disease. The virus infections generally include the risk of rubella, mumps, influenza, etc., as well as the lack of nutrition, taking teratogenic drugs, exposure to radiation and environmental pollution.

Symbolic symptoms of congenital heart disease

The main symptoms of infants with congenital heart disease are: (1) it began to emerge cyanosis immediately or after birth, especially obvious in the lips, nail bed of fingers (toes) and the nose (2) The examination found that the heart murmur (3) slow growth of body (4) when the infant is feeding, the sucking is weak, stop-eat, feeding difficulties, no increase in body weight (5) usually it is easy to suffer recurrently from respiratory tract infection, and symptoms such as cyanosis and heart murmur in the baby after the birth are discovered by a doctor during the regular medical examination. Parents should have more carefully observations in their daily lives. Once it is found to have similar symptoms or other unusual behavior, it must be vigilant and prompt to go to the hospital for further inspections.

The treatment of congenital heart disease  As the continuous progress of pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac catheterization technology as long as it was timely treated, most congenital heart diseases are curable. It is certain that there are still a small number of very complex congenital heart disease which have not find yet the ideal method of treatment.

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