Heart disease caused by defects present in the heart at birth. This can be inherited from parents or caused by infections or diseases of the mother incurred during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Heart disease that is present at birth.
Abnormalities of cardiac structure or function present at birth.
can include congenital heart defects, congenital arrhythmias and cardiomyapathy (a chronic disorder of the heart muscle that may involve obstructive damage).
A condition that occurs when a baby is born with a heart defect.
Disorders resulting from incomplete development of the heart in the womb; birth defects of the heart.
Alternations in the normal heart anatomy present in the newborn child. Not all of these are detected at birth. Some are first manifest or detected in adulthood, but still are a consequence of a malformation in the developing fetus leading to a structural abnormality of the heart at the time of birth and beyond .
A heart problem you were born with.
Any heart condition or abnormality that a person was born with.
A heart problem present from birth.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is heart disease in the newborn, and includes structural defects, congenital arrythmias, and cardiomyopathies. CHD is a defect of the heart that exists primarily at birth, and can describe a wide variety of different abnormalities affecting the heart. CHD occurs when the heart or blood vessels near the heart does not develop properly before birth.