Cyanotic heart disease
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Cyanotic heart disease is a heart defect, present at birth (congenital), that results in low blood oxygen levels. There may be more than one defect.
Cyanotic heart disease
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Cyanotic heart disease
A cyanotic heart defect is a group-type of congenital heart defects (CHDs). The patient appears blue (cyanotic), due to deoxygenated blood bypassing the lungs and entering the systemic circulation.
Cyanotic heart disease refers to heart disorders that cause cyanosis, or a blue skin color. It is usually caused by certain congenital heart diseases, or heart defects that are present at birth.
What is going on in the body?
Cyanotic heart disease is a heart defect, present at birth (congenital), that results in low blood oxygen levels. There may be more than one defect.
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Cyanotic heart disease Congenital heart defects Mental retardation Short neck Short stature
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Cyanotic heart disease can occur due to a combination of both septal and obstruction defects being present in the heart, or if the muscles of the heart are weaker than they should be.
Cyanotic heart disease
Gut malrotation
Jeune's syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy) ...
Cyanotic heart disease - A birth defect of the heart that causes oxygen-poor (blue) blood to circulate to the body without first passing through the lungs.
cyanotic heart disease
Acrofrontofacionasal dysostosis syndrome ... decreased skin pigmentation, irregular skin pigmentation
Acrogeria (Gottron Type) ... fragile skin, thin skin
Acromegaloid, Cutis Verticis Gyrata, Corneal Leukoma Syndrome ...
Chronic cyanotic heart disease is highly associated with brain abscess and is the most frequent cause in children. Other causes of brain abscess are dental and facial infections, Trauma: Injury to the body, usually of a certain magnitude.
Most of the maternal deaths occur in patients with cyanotic heart disease and right to left shunts . These include such problems as obstructive lesions on the right side of the circulation.
Lack of oxygen (such as in suffocation or cyanotic heart disease), abnormal hemoglobin (such as methemoglobinemia) and toxins (such as cyanide) can all produce cyanosis.
Glenn shunt: A surgical operation for children born with cyanotic heart disease ("blue babies"), ...
 See also: Heart Disease, Symptom, Fever, Surgery, Infections
  
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