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Q: Pulmonary stenosis

asked by: DoctorQuestion on August 5th, 2007

My daughter is 1 month old and she has pulmonary stenosis. My husbands sister was born with a heart problem, his mother died from heart failure, and his cousin just died from heart failure. These are all women, and all the women on his side of the family have heart problems. Could my daughter's heart problem be genetic?

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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD

replied on September 12th, 2007

Heart Disease and Heart Attack Answer A3245

Heart failure is a common term for the final stage of many heart diseases (congenital or acquired). In your daughter's case, it seems that pulmonary stenosis is congenital. All congenital defects can be divided into 2 categories:
1. Inherited (genetic) defects – a defective gene was inherited from the parents
2. Non-inherited defenecys (acquired during the embryonic development) – some factor (virus, irradiation, medicine…) damaged the heart during the embryonic stage of intrauterine life.

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