Diseases

Congenital Heart Defects

Developmental abnormalities involving structures of the heart. These defects are present at birth but may be discovered later in life.

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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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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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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

  1. National Library of Medicine. Congenital Heart Defects. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006330. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006330
  2. Congenital Heart Defects. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_heart_defect
  3. Congenital Heart Defects. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q939364