Signs, Symptoms Of Heart Defects

Posted on: Tue 06-08-2013

- Many babies who are born with atrial septal defects have no signs or symptoms. However, as they grow, they may be small for their age.

- When signs and symptoms do occur, a heart murmur is the most common. A heart murmur is an extra or unusual sound heard during a heartbeat.

- If a large ASD isn’t repaired, the extra blood flow to the right side of the heart can damage the heart and lungs and cause heart failure. This generally doesn’t occur until adulthood.

- Babies born with ventricular septal defects usually have heart murmurs. Murmurs may be the first and only sign of a VSD. Heart murmurs often are present right after birth in many infants. However, the murmurs may not be heard until the baby is six to eight weeks old.

- Most newborns that have VSDs don’t have heart-related symptoms. However, babies who have medium or large VSDs can develop heart failure. Signs and symptoms of heart failure usually occur during the baby’s first two months of life.

-A major sign of heart failure in infancy is poor feeding and growth. VSD signs and symptoms are rare after infancy. This is because the defects either decrease in size on their own or they’re repaired.

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