Child With A Heart
Heart failure means your child s heart isn t able to pump as well as it should.
Child with a heart. An 11 year old myanmar child patient with congenital heart disease took a big step to escape from long suffering in midsummer of 2017. The most common cause of heart failure in children is a congenital heart defect. Heart rhythm problems arrhythmias can be caused by a congenital heart defect or from scarring that forms after surgery to correct a congenital heart defect.
In the u s an estimated 1 percent of babies born. Congenital heart disease chd is a type of heart disease that children are born with usually caused by heart defects that are present at birth. If your child s heart defect causes oxygen poor blood to mix with oxygen rich blood in his or her heart your child may develop a grayish blue skin color a condition called.
Common symptoms in children include trouble breathing tiredness and poor growth.