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Adult Congenital Heart Defect Repair

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What is Adult Congenital Heart Defect Repair?

Congenital heart defect repair surgery may be performed with minimally invasive surgery or traditional (open) heart surgery. Surgery may be recommended for the following reasons: To repair or replace an aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid or pulmonary valve. To expand arteries or unblock heart valves

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  • Bluish fingernails, lips and skin (cyanosis).
  • Dizziness.
  • Fatigue, including getting tired quickly with activity.
  • Heart murmur.
  • Heart palpitations.
  • Irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmia).
  • Shortness of breath (dyspnea).
  • Swelling (edema) of the ankles, feet or hands.
  • Heart infection (endocarditis).
  • Stroke.
  • Heart failure.
  • High blood pressure in the lung arteries (pulmonary hypertension).
  • Irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias). Faulty heart signaling causes the heart to beat too fast, too slowly or irregularly.
What causes adult congenital heart disease?

Researchers aren't sure exactly what causes adult congenital heart disease. Some ACHD may get passed down through families (inherited). In many cases, ACHD appears in conjunction with genetic diseases or disorders, such as Down syndrome and Turner syndrome.

  • Diabetes.
  • Medications.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.
  • Genetics. Congenital heart disease appears to run in families (inherited).
  • German measles (rubella). Having rubella during pregnancy may affect how the baby's heart develops while in the womb.
Avoid drinking alcohol or taking medication.

Avoid drinking alcohol or taking medication. Take 400 micrograms of folic acid supplement a day during the first trimester (first 12 weeks) of your pregnancy – this lowers your risk of giving birth to a child with congenital heart disease, as well as several other types of birth defect.

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?

Congenital heart defect repair surgery may be performed with minimally invasive surgery or traditional (open) heart surgery. Surgery may be recommended for the following reasons: To repair or replace an aortic valve, mitral valve, tricuspid or pulmonary valve. To expand arteries or unblock heart valves.

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How is it treated?

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Your surgeon may use open heart surgery to repair heart defects that occur inside the heart. In this type of surgery, which is performed using general anesthesia, your surgeon makes a large incision in the chest and opens the sternum, or breastbone, using surgical tools.

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