<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Critical congenital heart disease (CHD) represents a special type of cardiovascular emergency due to the complexity of the associated pathology. In many cases, urgent surgery or catheter-based intervention is required as the condition might be life-threatening. In patients with ductal-dependent lesions, closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) within the first few days postpartum, can cause sudden clinical deterioration with potentially life-threatening consequences. The diagnostic challenges, clinical presentation and particularities related to the closure of PDA in life-threatening critical CHD are presented.</p></abstract>

Critical congenital heart disease (CHD) represents a special type of cardiovascular emergency due to the complexity of the associated pathology. In many cases, urgent surgery or catheter-based intervention is required as the condition might be life-threatening. In patients with ductal-dependent lesions, closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) within the first few days postpartum, can cause sudden clinical deterioration with potentially life-threatening consequences. The diagnostic challenges, clinical presentation and particularities related to the closure of PDA in life-threatening critical CHD are presented.

Critical Congenital Heart Diseases as Life-threatening Conditions in the Emergency Room

Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Transplantation, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania, 50 Gheorghe Marinescu St. 540136

Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies

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Critical congenital heart disease (CHD) represents a special type of cardiovascular emergency due to the complexity of the associated pathology. In many cases,...

Critical Congenital Heart Diseases as Life-threatening Conditions in the Emergency Room

Published Online: Jun 03, 2016

Page range: 7 - 10

Received: Oct 20, 2015

Accepted: Dec 15, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jce-2016-0002

Keywords
congenital heart disease, emergency room, neonatologic emergencies

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Critical Congenital Heart Diseases as Life-threatening Conditions in the Emergency Room

Published Online: Jun 03, 2016

Page range: 7 - 10

Received: Oct 20, 2015

Accepted: Dec 15, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jce-2016-0002

Keywordscongenital heart disease, emergency room, neonatologic emergencies

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
congenital heart disease, emergency room, neonatologic emergencies