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Heart Defects

How is it treated?

The spectrum of congenital heart disease is considerable, ranging from simple conditions which may require no treatment to far more complex conditions. Treatment options continue to evolve with increasing cardiac catheter based interventions being offered; surgical intervention continues to be necessary in just under half of all cases. Many children with heart murmurs do not have a heart abnormality and these heart murmurs are called innocent murmurs and these are noises produced by the normal passage of blood through the circulation.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated February 2008 by Dr Jonathan Forsey, Specialist Registrar Paediatric Cardiology and Dr Robin Martin, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol. UK

 

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