Endocarditis Congenital

**Endocarditis** is an inflammatory lesion of the inner lining of the heart. This term does not indicate the form of the disease or its location, but simply describes the presence of inflammation in the heart.

**Congenital Endocarditis**

Congenital endocarditis is an infectious inflammatory process of the endocardium of the heart, which initially develops as a result of intrauterine infection by pathogens and against the background of the primary antenatal opening of the Botallo duct. **With endocarditis, damage occurs to the endocardium - the inner lining.** In the absence of timely diagnosis and treatment, endocarditis can cause blood poisoning and threaten the patient’s life.

Cardiac endocarditis is usually diagnosed after the child reaches one year of age. Infants under this age often have another type of infection - bacterial or viral. But we should not exclude the possibility of premature development of endocarditis. Less often