Congenital heart disease history and symptoms
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [2], Keri Shafer, M.D. [3], Atif Mohammad, M.D.; Assistant Editor-In-Chief: Kristin Feeney, B.S. [4]
Overview
Patients with congenital heart disease may experience symptom onset during infancy, childhood and even latent symptoms in adulthood. Common symptoms include heart failure, cyanosis, pulmonary hypertension, chest pain, infective endocarditis, tachypnea, tachycardia, and cardiomegaly.
Symptoms
- Heart failure
- Excessive sweating
- Poor feeding
- Failure to thrive
- Decreased urine output
- Cyanosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Infective endocarditis
- Chest pain
- Tachypnea
- Tachycardia
- Wheezing, rales
- Hepatomegaly
- Gallop heart sound
- Cardiomegaly on CXR