For infants and children the symptoms include a bluish tint to the finger nails, skin, and lips. Issues with weigh gain, fast breathing, and the inability to excersize.

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Most patients with congenital heart disease don't need treatment. They get their heart observed and visit their cardiologist. For the people who do need treatment they get surgery or cardiac catheterization to repair the defect. Even if a child gets treatment, it is possible for them to develop further conditions that would need more medical treatment.

What is congenital heart disease?

Congenital  heart disease is where an infant has a problem with their heart structure when they are born. They could have a small hole in their heart, or something more severe. The infants could be born with a blood vessel that is too narrow or completely closed. The chamber walls in their hearts could have a hole so the blood is mixing when it shouldn't.

Congenital heart disease

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