Cyanotic heart defect causes

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Keri Shafer, M.D. [2], Atif Mohammad, M.D.

Overview[edit | edit source]

Causes[edit | edit source]

Causes in Alphabetical Order[edit | edit source]

• Aortic valve is unable to open wide enough.
• Chemical exposure
• Coarctation or complete interruption of the aorta
• Ebstein's anomaly
• Genetic and chromosomal syndromes, such as:
  • Down syndrome
  • Trisomy 13
  • Turner syndrome
  • Marfan syndrome
  • Noonan syndrome
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
• Infections (such as rubella) during pregnancy
• Medications prescribed by your doctor or bought on your own and used during pregnancy
• Poorly controlled blood sugar levels in women who have diabetes during pregnancy
• Pulmonary valve may be absent or unable to open wide enough.
• Street drugs used during pregnancy
• Tetralogy of Fallot
• Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
• Transposition of the great arteries
• Tricuspid valve may be absent or unable to open wide enough.
• Truncus arteriosus

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