Symptoms of atrial septal defect

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There are many reasons in our life that lead to the emergence of atrial septal defect, which affects the heart health of many infants. Babies will cry seriously after the onset of the disease, and it will hinder their development. Therefore, Baoma need to pay attention to atrial septal defect, clearly understand the symptoms of the disease, and introduce the symptoms of atrial septal defect.

Symptoms of atrial septal defect

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is common in heart diseases. Many babies will have the symptoms of ASD, which seriously damages the heart of children. The symptoms of ASD are not consistent, which is closely related to the size of the defect and the amount of shunt. If the defect is large, the symptoms usually appear earlier, However, patients with smaller defects can be asymptomatic for a long time and remain latent until old age.

Most of the patients do not have any symptoms in childhood, they are often found in physical examination; Generally speaking, after the youth, most of them begin to have related symptoms when they are 21-40 years old. The main symptoms are palpitations, shortness of breath, respiratory tract infection, heart failure, etc. after work, which will make children suffer especially and seriously damage the health of children's heart parts.

Children with atrial septal defect (ASD) have a high pulmonary resistance after birth, so there will be a large defect. A small amount of blood will flow from right to left, and there will be slight cyanosis. In a few months after birth, pulmonary resistance will decrease, and the pressure of right atrium will be lower than that of left atrium, and cyanosis will disappear, This is because the blood is shunted from left to right.

matters needing attention

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is very complex and harmful, which damages the health of many baby's heart parts. I hope parents and friends can understand the symptoms of ASD and pay attention to the changes of baby's heart.