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The outcome of the congenital heart block varies a lot due to several factors, such as the associated diseases, severity of the atrioventricular block, maternal age...etc. In terms of the severity of the AV block, newborn kids with heart rate lower than 55 bpm have a negative outcome and higher chance to need pace-maker implantation, [ 1 ] as ...
Some states are now screening for more than 50 congenital conditions. Many of these are rare and unfamiliar to pediatricians and other primary health care professionals. [1] Blood cell disorders. Variant hemoglobinopathies (including Hb E) [1] Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD) Inborn errors of amino acid metabolism ...
Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease in an infant born to a mother with anti-Ro/SSA and with or without anti-La/SSB antibodies. [1] [2] The disease most commonly presents with a diffuse/periorbital rash resembling subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus and can have systemic abnormalities such as complete heart block or hepatosplenomegaly. [3]
Most congenital heart defects are not associated with other diseases. [3] A complication of CHD is heart failure. [2] Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defect. [3] [11] In 2015, they were present in 48.9 million people globally. [8] They affect between 4 and 75 per 1,000 live births, depending upon how they are diagnosed.
[2] [3] [4] Dinoprostone is used in labor induction, bleeding after delivery, termination of pregnancy, and in newborn babies to keep the ductus arteriosus open. [2] [5] In babies it is used in those with congenital heart defects until surgery can be carried out. [5] It is also used to manage gestational trophoblastic disease. [4]
[5]: 62 Babies with Down syndrome and other chromosomal defects that cause congenital heart defects may also be at risk of teratology of Fallot. [11] Teratology of fallot is typically treated by open heart surgery in the first year of life. [8] The timing of surgery depends on the baby's symptoms and size. [8]
Generally, diseases outlined within the ICD-10 codes Q20-Q24 within Chapter XVII: Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities should be included in this category. Congenital heart disease is any disease due to an inborn defect in the heart that is present at birth.
It is characterized by cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular beating of the heart, caused by abnormal conduction from or through the atrioventricular node (AV node). [2] [3] In newborns and infants up to 6 weeks old, the disease may also be referred to as His bundle tachycardia or congenital JET.