Structured Summary
Abstract
Developmental abnormalities involving structures of the heart. These defects are present at birth but may be discovered later in life.
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Narrower headings
- 22q11 Deletion Syndrome
- Alagille Syndrome
- Aortic Coarctation
- Aortico-Ventricular Tunnel
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
- Barth Syndrome
- Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
- Cor Triatriatum
- Coronary Vessel Anomalies
- Crisscross Heart
- Dextrocardia
- Ebstein Anomaly
- Ectopia Cordis
- Eisenmenger Complex
- Heart Septal Defects
- Heterotaxy Syndrome
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Isolated Noncompaction of the Ventricular Myocardium
- LEOPARD Syndrome
- Levocardia
- Long QT Syndrome
- Marfan Syndrome
- Noonan Syndrome
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Quadricuspid Aortic Valve
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of Great Vessels
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Trilogy of Fallot
- Trisomy 13 Syndrome
- Trisomy 18 Syndrome
- Turner Syndrome
- Univentricular Heart
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
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Synonyms
15 entry terms
- Abnormality, Heart
- Congenital Heart Defect
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Defects, Congenital Heart
- Heart Abnormalities
- Heart Defect, Congenital
- Heart Defects, Congenital
- Heart, Malformation Of
- Congenital Heart Diseases
- Defect, Congenital Heart
- Disease, Congenital Heart
- Heart Abnormality
- Heart Disease, Congenital
- Malformation Of Heart
- Malformation Of Hearts
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Aspects Covered
34 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
general only; do not use as coordinate for specific term /abnorm; cyanotic defects probably go here but do not also index under CYANOSIS unless especially discussed
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Congenital Heart Defects. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006330. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006330
- Congenital Heart Defects. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_heart_defect
- Congenital Heart Defects. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q939364