{"id":1337,"date":"2020-07-31T18:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/?page_id=1337"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:08:09","slug":"conditions-we-treat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/congenital-heart\/conditions-we-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions We Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_separator][vc_tabs][vc_tab title=&#8221;Acyanotic Heart Defects&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;742577dd-06b2-6&#8243;][vc_column_text]Acyanotic congenital heart defects (non blue baby lesions) may be due to obstructive lesions (stenosis) or left-to-right shunts.\u00a0 Lesions with left-to-right shunts include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and patent ductus arteriosus.\u00a0 Obstructive lesions include pulmonary stenosis, aortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. These babies are \u201cpink\u201d and present with symptoms of congestive heart failure, which may include poor weight gain, feeding or exercise intolerance (baby sweats when he\/she eats), or prolonged recovery from simple respiratory infections.\u00a0 These defects should be dealt with prior to the development of Eisenmenger syndrome, irreversible pulmonary vascular damage (elevated pulmonary vascular resistance), which causes a reversal of the shunt (left to right becomes right to left).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/adult-cardiac-surgery\/medical-conditions-and-treatments\/aortic-stenosis\/\">Aortic Stenosis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/aortic-stenosis-as-2\/\">Atrial Septal Defect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/atrioventricular-septal-defect-avsd\/\">Atrioventricular Septal Defect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/coarctation-of-the-aorta\/\">Coarctation of the Aorta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patent-ductus-arteriosus-pda\/\">Patent Ductus Arteriosus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/pediatrics\/conditions-we-treat\/pulmonary-stenosis-ps\/\">Pulmonary Stenosis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/ventricular-septal-defect-back-congenital-heart-defect-diagnoses\/\">Ventricular Septal Defect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][vc_tab title=&#8221;Cyanotic Heart Defects&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;7e0b42d4-2c49-9&#8243;][vc_column_text]Cyanotic congenital heart defects are a series of defects where a baby may have periods of being \u201cblue\u201d.\u00a0 They share the common characteristic of causing right sided to left sided shunting of blood within the heart or lungs and include tetralogy of Fallot, Transposition of the Great Arteries, Tricuspid Atresia, Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection, Truncus Arteriosus, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Double-Outlet Right Ventricle, Interrupted Aortic Arch, Pulmonary Atresia with or without Intact Ventricular Septum, Double-Inlet Left Ventricle, and Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome. (Note that most of the cyanotic heart defects start with a \u201cT\u201d). These children present with varying degrees of cyanosis and until the late 1940s, were all destined for early death. Dr\u2019s Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig and lab assistant Vivian Thomas performed the first surgery for \u201cblue babies\u201d in 1946 at Johns Hopkins (see below, Modified Blalock-Taussig Shunt).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/double-outlet-right-ventricle-dorv\/\">Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/interrupted-aortic-arch-iaa\/\">Interrupted Aortic Arch (IAA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/pediatrics\/conditions-we-treat\/244-2\/\">Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/tetralogy-of-fallot\/\">Tetralogy of Fallot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/total-anomalous-pulmonary-venous-return-tapvr\/\">Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (TAPVR)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/transposition-great-arteries-tga\/\">Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tricuspid Atresia<\/li>\n<li>Truncus Arteriosus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][\/vc_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;] \n        <a class=\"panel no-equilizer panel-mobile text-center colorized colorized-patientcare\" href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/congenital-heart\/conditions-we-treat\/\" title=\"Conditions We Treat\" target=\"\">\n            <span class=\"circle close2x mid-icon\"><span><i class=\"icon-med-case-lines\"><\/i><\/span><\/span><br>\n            <h3 >Conditions We Treat<\/h3>\n            <p><\/p>\n        <\/a> \n        <a class=\"panel no-equilizer panel-mobile text-center colorized colorized-patientcare\" href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/congenital-heart\/find-a-provider\/\" title=\"Find a Provider\" target=\"\">\n            <span class=\"circle close2x mid-icon\"><span><i class=\"icon-person-labcoat-male\"><\/i><\/span><\/span><br>\n            <h3 >Find a Provider<\/h3>\n            <p><\/p>\n        <\/a> \n        <a class=\"panel no-equilizer panel-mobile text-center colorized colorized-patientcare\" href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/congenital-heart\/clinical-locations\/\" title=\"Clinical Locations\" target=\"\">\n            <span class=\"circle close2x mid-icon\"><span><i class=\"icon-home\"><\/i><\/span><\/span><br>\n            <h3 >Clinical Locations<\/h3>\n            <p><\/p>\n        <\/a>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_separator][vc_tabs][vc_tab title=&#8221;Acyanotic Heart Defects&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;742577dd-06b2-6&#8243;][vc_column_text]Acyanotic congenital heart defects (non blue baby lesions) may be due to obstructive lesions (stenosis) or left-to-right shunts.\u00a0 Lesions with left-to-right shunts include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and patent ductus arteriosus.\u00a0 Obstructive lesions include pulmonary stenosis, aortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. These babies are \u201cpink\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/child-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conditions We Treat - Cardiothoracic Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/ct-surgery\/patient-care\/congenital-heart\/conditions-we-treat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conditions We Treat - Cardiothoracic Surgery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_separator][vc_tabs][vc_tab title=&#8221;Acyanotic Heart Defects&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;742577dd-06b2-6&#8243;][vc_column_text]Acyanotic congenital heart defects (non blue baby lesions) may be due to obstructive lesions (stenosis) or left-to-right shunts.\u00a0 Lesions with left-to-right shunts include atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and patent ductus arteriosus.\u00a0 Obstructive lesions include pulmonary stenosis, aortic stenosis, and coarctation of the aorta. 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