Leaky heart

Know Your Heart Disease Leaks

Structural abnormalities of the heart that causes the holes in the cardiac septum or commonly called leaky heart included in congenital heart disease that affects many children. Harapan Kita Hospital recorded 1,000 births there were 9 infants suffering from congenital heart disease (CHD).

The fetal heart formation process occurs in the early days of fertilization (conception), even before the mother realized she was pregnant. Heart formation has been perfect at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy.

In the case of leaky heart, dirty blood circulation flowing to clean the blood circulation so that the baby becomes blue. If too much bad blood circulation blood circulation to the net and into vital organs like the brain, there can be difficulty breathing, accompanied by seizures, and even death.

There are two types of CHD, namely PJB blue (cyanotic) and CHD are not blue (asianotik). PJB blue can be recognized easily that the ends of the nails, lips and tongue blue. While PJB blue no symptoms are not immediately visible.

"Usually, when children are suspected CHD easy to get sick, her weight is not increasing, hard drinking milk, or easy fatigue," said dr.Poppy S.Roebiono, Sp.JP (K), pediatric cardiologist from RS.Harapan Kita Jakarta ,

Congenital heart defects need to be detected from this. This can be done by routine inspection during normal pregnancy, especially to determine whether or not the baby's heartbeat. Parents also need to be suspicious if the child has symptoms such as pain, easily tired and thin body.
Most cases of congenital heart disease is to undergo surgery. But there are also cases of leakage of the heart that can be cured only with drugs.

For the surgery, if the fear of doing open-heart surgery (open heart surgery), parents can select actions catheterization by inserting a catheter through the groin to reach the heart. At the heart of such a tool would be put umbrellas to seal the leak.
But according to leaked dr.Poppy not all patients can be catheterized heart. "If the location of the leak somewhat below would be difficult catheterization, options must remain open surgery," he said.