Can an infant die suddenly due to heart ailment?
Patient: our baby was born at the 2nd july and died at 3rd july,we only saw him for about 5 minutes after he was born and they took him away because doctors say that he dont have enough air and they will bring him back after he is fine,but before we get to see him again they told us that the baby is not fine,we were going to the nursery where they treated him before we reach the nursery one nurse came to us and told us the baby was dead because of some heart problems,can you please give me details of how he died Doctor: Hello, My Heartfelt sympathies with you. There can be number of reasons that a newborn baby can have such incidence.Since you were told that the cause is a heart ailment, I will only concentrate on that, since otherwise its a big list of causesTo make you understand in simple terms, you have to understand that the heart system that works inside the body of a baby inside womb and outside womb is strikingly different. BASICALLY THE PATH AND VALVES INVOLVED IN THE CIRCULATION are altered post birth. There are few heart conditions where in baby cannot do this transition of intra uterine to extra uterine heart cycle. This are usually serious heart problems which are basically structural deformities, and many a times may not be visualized in ante natal  investigations too.Hope this helps youRegards Dr Poonam Sambhaji