http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/Heart_problems.asp Diseases that affects the heart Functionality from normal to abnormal. en-us 2012-02-24T18:57:16.0000000+05:30 http://www.pediatriconcall.com/rss_media/rss_rss_Heart_Problems.jpg http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/Heart_problems.asp Heart Problems or cardiopathy means different diseases affecting the heart's normal functionality. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/Heart_problems.asp 2012-02-24T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Dilated Cardiomyopathy is a condition when the heart is enlarged and weak and results in less pumping of blood around the body. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/cardiomyopathy.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Causes can include nutritional deficiencies, stress, anemia, Viral Infection , excessive consumption of alcohol, genetic, etc. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/cardiomyopathy1.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Your doctor may carry out some preliminary tests such as ECG, ultrasound, chest X-ray. A diagnosis can be made on echocardiography. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/cardiomyopathy2.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Introduction for Tricuspid Atresia in Children http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tricuspid.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Since there is mixing of both pure and impure blood in the heart and that blood causes into the body, the child may appear blue. Some children may have too much blood flowing into the lungs through the hole in the ventricles and this could lead to breathlessness. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tricuspid1.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 The treatment consists of surgical repair. Without surgery, the patient rarely survives to adulthood. In case of absence of pulmonary valve may require a shunt to increase blood flow to the lungs. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tricuspid2.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 In Tetralogy of Fallot, there is a large hole between the two ventricles (ventricular septal defect) that lets blood pass from the right to the left ventricle without going through the lungs along with a narrowing near the outflow of right ventricle thus restricting blood flow into the pulmonary artery. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tof.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 There is a "spasm" of the band of muscles just at the right ventricle narrowing. This leads to further decrease in blood flowing into the lungs and thus increased blue color as oxygen content of blood becomes very low. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tof1.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Some infants with severe Tetralogy of Fallot may need an operation to increase blood supply to the lungs. This is done by shunt surgery whereby the connection between aorta and pulmonary artery is made. This increases the oxygen content of the blood. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tof2.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Introduction for Pulmonary Atresia in Children http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/pulmonary.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 As there is mixing of both oxygen rich and oxygen poor blood which goes into the body, the baby may appear blue because there is less oxygen in the blood circulating in the arteries. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/pulmonary1.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 In ventricular septal defect, there is a hole between the two ventricles that lets blood pass from the left ventricle to the right ventricle. Thus, less amount of blood flows into the aorta and into the body. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/vsd.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 In VSD, since more blood goes into the lungs, lungs have to work more and thus child may have breathlessness. Since more blood comes into left atrium and then left ventricle, the left atrium and ventricle enlarge. Also since right ventricle also receives more blood, right ventricle also enlarges. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/vsd1.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 If the hole is small, it may not strain the heart and often it may close spontaneously so no treatment may be required. If the hole is larger, then surgery to close the hole is required to prevent heart failure and Eisenmenger’s complex http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/vsd2.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 Kawasaki disease is an illness of childhood that leads to fever, rash and heart disease in children without any specific cause. This disease is more common in the Japanese American population. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/kawasaki_disease.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 To understand what is PDA, one has to first understand the circulatory system in the baby while in the mother's womb. While the baby is in the Uterus, it does not breathe. Hence, the lungs do not require the blood from the right ventricle. Thus, nature provides a "bypass"- a small blood vessel called DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS that connects the pulmonary artery directly to the aorta. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/patent_ductus.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 In TGA, impure blood that returns to the right ventricle instead of going to the lungs passes into the aorta and back to the body. Also pure blood that comes from the lungs in the left ventricle goes back to the lungs through the pulmonary artery. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/tga.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 A hole in this septum leads to blood flow from left atrium to the right atrium. This is because the pressure of blood in left atrium is higher than that of the right atrium. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/atrial.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30 In truncus arteriosus, only one artery arises from the heart. Thus both pure and impure blood mix and go to lungs and the body. http://www.pediatriconcall.com/forpatients/commonchild/Heart_problems/truncus.asp 2011-06-18T00:00:00.0000000+05:30