“Can you live a long life with heart problems as a child?”
I am an 18 year old male. I want to know can you live a long life with heart problems as a child?
3 Answers
There is a whole new subspecialty in cardiology to take care of people who had congenital heart disease as a child because they are living well into adulthood. Even people that had severe defects in their heart and had surgery are now living well into adulthood as opposed to the past
Definitely yes
Yes, you can. Many of the congenital heart lesions are very fixable and you can live a long normal life. Some complicated surgeries might change that a little, but we all recognize they’ll be so many more options available in the next 20 years that our goal is to keep kids alive into adulthood when new opportunities are available.
