What sort of disease is congenital heart disease?

Born with it: It is a heart defect you are born with. It may be simple, moderate, or very serious. They include "holes in the heart", valve problems, malformed or absent chambers, valves, or blood vessels. Just under 1 % of all babies are born with some type of defect, often minor and temporary. They are usually diagnosed shortly after birth, occasionally much later.

Inherited problem: A inherited problem, in addition to the heart murmur, children suffering from those diseases often occur difficult to feed, by weight, shortness of breath and difficulty purple face of the symptoms.

Varies: Babies can be born with a number of heart anomalies, possibly as part of syndrome or prematurity. They can be holes in the heart, abnormalities of the large vesels coming off heart, failure of part of the heart to develop, coronary artery problems, and more. A pediatric cardiologist and cardiothoracic surgeon will evaluate specifics. Anesthesia for these procedures is very specialized.