Causes of heart failure on day 1 of life

Causes of heart failure on day 1 of life

Heart failure on day 1 of life is mostly due to metabolic causes like hypocalcemia and hypoglycemia. Seizures along with heart failure may indicate metabolic causes.

Other causes of heart failure on day 1 are critically obstructed series circulation as in critical aortic stenosis or pulmonary stenosis or obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) and a poorly mixing parallel circulation as in transposition of great arteries ( TGA).