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- Blood diseases: what are the disease symptoms in children and adults
- Heart disease: what are heart disease
- Directory of clinics of St. Petersburg
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- Thrombocytopenia: the extent and types, treatment, symptoms, and consequences
- Hypertension: causes, extent and stage, complications
- Thrombosis: symptoms and causes, diagnosis, treatment and consequences
- Pericarditis of the heart: causes, treatment, types and symptoms
- Leukopenia: extent, types, symptoms, causes and treatment, nutrition
- Embolism of the arteries and blood vessels, types, symptoms, causes, consequences
- Cardiac arrythmia: classification, types, treatment and prevention
- Thrombophlebitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, classification, treatment
- Heart failure: stages, functional classes, degrees, forms
- Heart defects: classification, causes, types, symptoms and treatment
- Leukemia blood: types and classification, reasons, symptoms, treatment
- Cardio heart: treatment, causes, types, symptoms and signs
- Cardiomyopathy: classification, symptoms, treatment, causes and prevention
- Ischemia: causes, treatment, consequences, extent, and symptoms
- Hypertension: types, causes, stages, symptoms and treatment
- Vegetative-vascular dystonia (VSD): causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention
- Varices (varicose veins): causes, symptoms and treatment
- Atherosclerosis: causes, types, stages, prevention and treatment
- Angiopathy of blood vessels: types, symptoms, treatment and prevention
- Bradycardia heart: symptoms, treatment and first aid for seizure
- Heart attack (myocardial): classification, forms, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
- List of diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system
- Aneurysm of vessels: causes and symptoms, diagnosis, types and treatments
- Mitral valve: extent, causes, signs and contraindications
- A stroke of the brain: types, causes and treatment
- Arrhythmias: symptoms, treatment, causes, types, forms and prevention
- Angina heart: classification, forms, stages, causes, symptoms and treatment
- Heart tachycardia: symptoms, causes, treatment, classification
Congenital heart defects in newborns
Symptoms and signs
Symptoms of heart defects in newborns vary greatly, depending on the specific structural anomalies, the total for all is:
- lack of oxygen (hypoxemia) and nutrients to tissues and organs;
- congestive heart failure.
The decrease in the concentration of oxygen in arterial blood is usually from birth. While the skin of the baby becomes cyanotic hue, and the frequency of the respiratory movements becomes much more than the norm. In connection with the change in the level of metabolism in the blood accumulate toxic metabolic products having acid reaction. Develops acidosis and decompensation which can lead to infant death.