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Congenital Heart Disease: Causes, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatments

Cell biochemistry and biophysics, 2015-07, Vol.72 (3), p.857-860 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 ;ISSN: 1085-9195 ;EISSN: 1559-0283 ;DOI: 10.1007/s12013-015-0551-6 ;PMID: 25638345

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  • Title:
    Congenital Heart Disease: Causes, Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Treatments
  • Author: Sun, RongRong ; Liu, Min ; Lu, Lei ; Zheng, Yi ; Zhang, Peiying
  • Subjects: Biochemistry ; Biological and Medical Physics ; Biomedical and Life Sciences ; Biophysics ; Biotechnology ; Cell Biology ; Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnosis ; Heart Defects, Congenital - etiology ; Heart Defects, Congenital - genetics ; Heart Defects, Congenital - surgery ; Humans ; Life Sciences ; Original Paper ; Pharmacology/Toxicology
  • Is Part Of: Cell biochemistry and biophysics, 2015-07, Vol.72 (3), p.857-860
  • Description: The congenital heart disease includes abnormalities in heart structure that occur before birth. Such defects occur in the fetus while it is developing in the uterus during pregnancy. About 500,000 adults have congenital heart disease in USA (WebMD, Congenital heart defects medications, www.WebMD.com/heart-disease/tc/congenital-heart-defects-medications , 2014 ). 1 in every 100 children has defects in their heart due to genetic or chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down syndrome. The excessive alcohol consumption during pregnancy and use of medications, maternal viral infection, such as Rubella virus, measles (German), in the first trimester of pregnancy, all these are risk factors for congenital heart disease in children, and the risk increases if parent or sibling has a congenital heart defect. These are heart valves defects, atrial and ventricular septa defects, stenosis, the heart muscle abnormalities, and a hole inside wall of the heart which causes defect in blood circulation, heart failure, and eventual death. There are no particular symptoms of congenital heart disease, but shortness of breath and limited ability to do exercise, fatigue, abnormal sound of heart as heart murmur, which is diagnosed by a physician while listening to the heart beats. The echocardiogram or transesophageal echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, cardiac catheterization, and MRI methods are used to detect congenital heart disease. Several medications are given depending on the severity of this disease, and catheter method and surgery are required for serious cases to repair heart valves or heart transplantation as in endocarditis. For genetic study, first DNA is extracted from blood followed by DNA sequence analysis and any defect in nucleotide sequence of DNA is determined. For congenital heart disease, genes in chromosome 1 show some defects in nucleotide sequence. In this review the causes, diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments of congenital heart disease are described.
  • Publisher: New York: Springer US
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1085-9195
    EISSN: 1559-0283
    DOI: 10.1007/s12013-015-0551-6
    PMID: 25638345
  • Source: MEDLINE
    ProQuest Central
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