Cyanotic Heart Disease is a disease that causes the skin color to turn blue. This heart disease is generic and is a heart defect usually found in infants at birth or shortly after birth.
This is a congenial heart disease that can either prevent enough blood flow to the lungs that keep the oxygen from getting into the blood or allow blood to get to the lungs, but the oxygenated blood is then kept from being pumped into the body's regular circulation. Low oxygen levels in the blood can lead to organ failure and even death.
Some of these types of heart defects that cause cyanotic heart disease are:
- the main arteries of the body and lungs are reversed
- the opening between the heart and the lungs is abnormal
- a malformed heart valve doesn't allow blood to flow into the lungs
The heart develops abnormally before the person is born, but most of the time the factors that causes cyanotic heart disease is unknown. But there are some known factors listed below:
- a pregnant mother takes medication or drugs such as retinoic acid
- an infection or measles such as rubella in the womb
- Down syndrome or Turner syndrome that are chromosome abnormalities
- Alcohol in jested by a pregnant mother
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