What are the 5 main types of congenital heart disease?

American Heart Association: “Common Types of Heart Defects,” “Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defect,” “Pulmonary Valve Stenosis,” “Tetralogy of Fallot,” “Problem: Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation,” “Problem: Pulmonary Valve Regurgitation,” “l-Transposition of the great arteries.”

What are some rare heart diseases?

Rick Karsan explains these conditions and how they got their names.

  • Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The condition was first described in Japan.
  • Cardiac syndrome X.
  • Prinzmetal angina.
  • Kawasaki disease.
  • Torsades de pointes.
  • Tetralogy of Fallot.
  • Barlow’s syndrome.
  • Ebstein’s anomaly.

What are the different types of congenital heart defects?

Types of congenital heart defects include:

  • aortic stenosis.
  • atrial septal defect (ASD)
  • atrioventricular canal defect.
  • coarctation of the aorta (COA)
  • Ebstein anomaly.
  • hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
  • patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
  • patent foramen ovale (PFO)

What is the rarest heart defect?

Truncus arteriosus is a rare type of heart disease that is present at birth (congenital) in which there is a single main blood vessel, rather than the normal two, carrying blood away from the heart.

What is the most severe heart defect?

Critical congenital heart defects (also called critical CHDs or critical congenital heart disease) are the most serious congenital heart defects.

What is the most common defect found that is a congenital defect?

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common type of birth defect. As medical care and treatment have advanced, babies with a CHD are living longer and healthier lives.

What’s the worst heart condition?

Blockage in the coronary arteries is called coronary artery disease—a condition in which the heart muscles don’t get enough blood and oxygen. The most serious effect of coronary artery disease is sudden death without warning. This usually happens in individuals who have had heart attacks or other heart damage.

What is Eisenmenger’s syndrome?

Eisenmenger syndrome is an advanced form of pulmonary artery hypertension. In this condition, the arteries that carry blood from the heart to the lungs narrow. This makes the pressure of blood flow against the walls of the arteries (blood pressure) too high. The heart must work harder to pump blood into the lungs.

What congenital heart defect could not show up until adulthood?

Milder septal defects (commonly referred to as a hole in the heart), subaortic stenosis (a restriction on blood pumping out of the left ventricle to the rest of the body), mitral valve prolapse or bicuspid aortic valve can go unnoticed.