Definitions for "Congenital heart disease"
Keywords:  birth, newborn, defect, born, heart
Heart defects that occur when the heart or blood vessels do not develop normally before birth.
Heart disease caused by abnormalities of the heart or major blood vessels which are due to abnormal development of the foetus and which are present at birth.
The disease present at birth that is caused by a structural abnormality which occurs as the heart is forming. The defect results in an abnormal flow of blood through the heart and/or lungs after birth.