Spectrum of Congenital Heart Disease in a Tertiary Care Center
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2019-06
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International Research Organization for Life & Health Sciences (IROLHS)
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Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is not an uncommon entity in our country. The prevalence of CHD is 9.3 Per 1000life birth in Asia which is found to be highest globally. Not much of Indian data is available particularly from south part of thecountry. So we conduct a retrospective study to know the spectrum of congenital heart disease in our set up.Methods: This is a retrospective hospital based study carried out over a period of 12 months (2018 January – 2019 January)where all suspected children (< 12 years) of CHD were subjected to echocardiographic study. The age, sex, clinical presentationand echo findings were well documented.Results: The total number CHD diagnosed were 124 and were more common among males (54.5%) with male to female ratiois 1.2:1.Congenital heart diseases were diagnosed more commonly between 1 month to 1 Year (45.9%). The commonest typeof acyanotic CHD in our study was ventricular septal defect (VSD) (32.3%) and cyanotic CHD is tetralogy of Fallot (8.06%). Themajor clinical finding was a detection of a murmur (84.4%) followed by tachycardia (41.5%) and tachypnea (36.3%).Conclusions: In this era of most accurate diagnostic modalities, any clinical suspicion of congenital heart disease should beconfirmed by echocardiography to hasten the diagnosis, timely management and prevention of complications.
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Congenital heart disease, Echocardiograph, Prevalence
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Kulandaivel M, M Nithya. Spectrum of Congenital Heart Disease in a Tertiary Care Center. International Journal of Scientific Study. 2019 Jun; 7(3): 72-74