Clinical profile of congenital heart disease in neonates

Abstract

Congenital heart disease defined as an abnormality in cardio circulatory structure or function that is mostly present at birth, even it is discovered much later. The incidences of moderate to severe structural congenital heart disease in live born infant is 6 to 8 per 1000 live births. 5-8 Accordingly, the congenital heart disease are not fixed anatomic defects that appear at birth, but are instead a dynamic group of anomalies that originates in fetal life and changes considerable during the postnatal development