Major heart defects: the diagnostic evaluations of first-year-olds.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe or critical congenital heart defects (CHDs) constitute one third of the heart defect cases detected only after birth. These prenatally unrecognised defects usually manifest as cyanotic or acyanotic lesions and are diagnosed postnatally at various times. The aim of the study was to identify their clinical symptoms and determine individual risk periods for CHD manifestation.

Methods

Data were assessed retrospectively based on a cohort of patients born between 2009 and 2018 in a population of 175,153 live births. Occurrence of the first symptoms of CHD was classified into: early neonatal (0-7 days), late neonatal (8-28 days), early infancy (1-6 months), or late infancy (6-12 months). The first symptom for which the child was referred to a paediatric cardiologi

SUBMITTER: Pavlicek J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8630885 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature