Early symptoms of neonatal heart disease

Update Date: 2023-02-20 Source: Network

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Heart disease is a very terrible disease, it takes away many people's illness, but many people do not know what the early symptoms of infant heart disease, infant heart disease is congenital heart disease. Congenital cardiovascular disease is the most common type of congenital malformation. During physical examination, it is found that severe cases may have dyspnea, cyanosis, syncope, etc. after activity, and older children may have growth retardation. The presence or absence of symptoms is also related to the type of disease and the presence or absence of complications. Let's talk about the early symptoms of neonatal heart disease

Early symptoms of neonatal heart disease

1. Heart failure: neonatal heart failure is regarded as a kind of emergency, usually most of them are due to severe heart defects. Its clinical manifestation is due to hyperemia of pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation and decrease of cardiac output. The patient has pale complexion, suffocation, dyspnea and tachycardia. The heart rate can reach 160-190 beats per minute, and the blood pressure is often low. You can hear the galloping horse. The liver is large, but peripheral edema is rare.

2. Crouching: children with cyanotic congenital heart disease, especially children with tetralogy of Fallot, often show crouching signs after activity, which can increase systemic vascular resistance, reduce right to left shunt caused by cardiac septal defect, and increase venous blood return to the right heart, so as to improve pulmonary blood flow.

3. Clubbing fingers (toes): almost all cyanotic congenital heart diseases are accompanied by clubbing fingers (toes) and polycythemia. The mechanism of clubbing finger (toe): chronic hypoxia, metabolic disorder and toxic injury at the end of limbs. The end of the fingers or toes is hyperplasia, hypertrophy and clubbing.

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Infants with congenital heart disease are very vulnerable, to good protection, do not catch cold, pay attention to add clothing, take some drugs to resist.