Blue baby operation: A surgical procedure for a baby who is cyanotic (blue) due to a heart malformation that prevents blood from being fully oxygenated. The bluish color reflects the deoxygenated state of the blood.
Blue Baby
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infant born with a congenital heart defect that causes a bluish coloration of the skin as a result of cyanosis (deoxygenated blood).
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Blue baby: A baby who is cyanotic (blue), due usually to a heart malformation that prevents the baby's blood from being fully oxygenated. The bluish color reflects the deoxygenated state of the blood.
Blue Baby
A popular term for a child born with cyanosis. [Appleton1904].
An infant born with cyanosis as a result of a congenital cardiac or pulmonary defect that causes inadequate oxygenation of the blood. [Heritage].
blue baby syndrome
congenital methemoglobinemia
hemoglobin M disease
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Other conditions: Other health conditions that may occur in infants include: blue baby, a condition where the baby is born with a "blue" color due to congenital heart defects; childhood nephrotic syndrome, ...
The most well known of these early surgeries was the Blalock-Taussig shunt to treat 'blue baby syndrome,' often caused by Tetralogy of Fallot and other defects in which unoxygenated blood is sent back to the body.
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congestive heart failure—a back-up of blood flow that results in a fluid buildup in the lungs
insufficient red blood flow to the body (“blue baby' syndrome) ...
Blue baby ... blueness, cyanosis
Blue Cohosh poisoning ... dermatitis
Blue devil poisoning ... itchy skin
Blue Diaper Syndrome ... fever, pallor
Blue rubber bleb nevus ... blister-like hemangiomas, blue-black hemangiomas ...
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