Perinatal Nursing & Adolescent Psychiatry

Adolescent Cardiology

Adolescent Cardiology deals with the diagnosis of congenital heart defects, abnormalities in the heart and performing diagnostic procedures such as echocardiogram and electrophysiological studies. Major heart diseases occurheart during the developmental stages of the foetus and start reflecting from the time of birth.The defects may be in the walls of heart, the valves of heart, and the arteries and veins involved in the circulatory mechanism along the heart. The symptoms can differ from none to life-threatening. It can be caused due to genetic conditions, taking medications, viral infections like Rubella, poor nutritional status or overweight child. Some treatments can be done by catheter based procedures and heart surgeries. Every year, more than 35,000 babies in the United States are born with congenital heart defects.