TYPES OF CARDIAC HEART DEFECTS IN INFANTS
Abstract:
Congenital heart defects (CHD) continue to have a great preponderance in pediatric cardiovascular pathology, and making an accurate diagnosis and early application of the treatment represent constant goals of modern cardiology. The aim of the study is to analyze the clinical profile of children with CHD and to evaluate the use of echocardiographic examination in diagnosing CHD. There were 81 infants with CHD whose data were recorded in a “CHD file”. Later, they were recorded in an EXCEL database, used to extract material for the study. These 81 infants represent 47.9% of the children with CHD, hospitalized during the four years of study. In the most dynamic years of the study, the number of newly diagnosed cases was significantly higher compared with other years, through the “active diagnosis”, with echocardiographic examination upon every suspicion of CHD. Cardiovascular complications occurred in ⅓ of children before the age of one year old.
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