neonatal heart failure

MOST LIKELY CAUSE

preemie infant: PDA
full term infant: hypoplastic left heart
2nd week: coarctation + VSD

ETIOLOGY

valvular stenosis
- mitral stenosis
- aortic stenosis
aortic coarctation
vein of Galen aneurysm
infantile hemangioendothelioma of liver
hypoplastic left heart

see also: CHF in kids

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