Have you read PRUearly start / PRUbest start brochure? Check on infant coverage for congenital illnesses. Do you understand the medical term?
I also didn’t understand all of the medical term. To aid my presentation and help my client to understand, below are the compilations of PRUearly start and PRUbest start Congenital Illnesses Definition with Diagram / Pictures.
Loss of hearing present at birth.
2. Congenital Cataract
A congenital cataract is clouding of the lens of the eye, that is present at birth.
3. Anal Atresia
The anus is either not present or it is in the wrong place.
4. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
A diaphragmatic hernia is a birth defect in which there is an abnormal opening in the diaphragm, the muscle that helps you breathe. The opening allows part of the organs from the belly (stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines) to go up into the chest cavity near the lungs.
5. Infantile Hydrocephalus
Build up of fluid inside the head during infancy, leading to enlargement of the head. Hydrocephalus means “water on the brain.”
6. Tetralogy of Fallot
A birth defect of the heart consisting of four abnormalities that results in insufficiently oxygenated blood pumped
to the body.
7. Transposition of Great Vessels
A congenital heart defect in which the two major vessels that carry blood away from the heart — the aorta and the pulmonary artery — are switched (transposed).
8. Truncus Arteriosus
A rare type of congenital heart disease characterized by a single blood vessel arising from the right and left ventricles,
instead of the normal two (pulmonary artery and aorta).
9. Atrial Septal Defect
A congenital heart defect in which the wall that separates the upper heart chambers (atria) does not close completely.
10. Ventricular Septal Defect
A congenital heart defect in which one or more holes in the wall that separates the right and left ventricles of the heart.