There are two kinds of treatments for heart disease: medical and surgical.
Congenital heart defects have no specific medication for the problem is structural, but in some cases can be prescribed to manage complications of the disease.
Meanwhile, surgery corrects the specific structural defect and improves the functioning of the heart sick. Surgery is complex and must be made in two hospitals with the experience and appropriate technology.
How is it done?
The test is performed through a small tube, known as the name of transducer, which is placed over the maternal abdomen. It sends sound waves to a very high frequency through the mother’s skin and other tissues to the heart of the baby. The sound waves bounce off the heart structures, the transducer collects them and sends them to the computer that interpreted the sounds and creating a picture of the different parts of the heart.
Congenital Diseases
Specialists in pediatric cardiology, explain that the ductus arteriosus is a disease that is more common in premature babies.
Normally in utero the aorta and pulmonary arteries that are linking the heart with the lung and also with the systemic circulation of the body are connected, which balances the pressures of the two systems, but once the child born, the sudden change in pressure causes the duct is closed. This is normal, but occasionally something goes wrong and the duct does not close, then, there is the communication with the venous blood pressure and produces a congenital heart disease. A disease is a congenital malformation that the child is from before birth but sometimes only detected at 2, 3 or even 9 years. Hence the importance to educate the community to learn to do so as soon as possible so we can offer children a normal life.
Pay close attention if …
• Your first child has congenital heart defects.
• A family history of congenital heart disease (uncles, grandparents or other relatives)
• You took no medications approved by your doctor or alcohol during pregnancy.
• you have diabetes.
• had rubella during pregnancy.
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