Ongential heart defect
Ongential heart defect
It might help by me telling my own history of congential heart defect. Let me begin. I was diagnosed at three moths of age with a congential heart defect. They do not know what casues the defect, but I did some reserch because my mother had Rhuematoid Arthritis. With the defect, I had a heart murmur, a leak of the aortic valve.
Begining at a young age, I had a couple of catherizations to keep track of the heart murmur and the aortic valve. At age eight, they perfromed my first bypass, a repair and scraped part of the heart murmur out of the aortic valve. I still had the murmur.
Years later, had the aortic valve replaced almost 2 years ago. But for the most part, the usual treatment for congetial heart defects are to keep a close monitor system in place, keeping track of the disease and do any necessary surgery to repair, place or replace. I hope this helps in the US. Part. We go throught x-rays, ekgs, eeg, ehocardiogram and the T. There is a lot of advances going on everyday that makes the old ways obslete.
Caroline
09-13-01
Aortic valve replacement
St. Jude's Valve