Etiological Profile of Congestive Cardiac Failure in Children in a Tertiary Care Center in Tamil Nadu
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Background: The availability of adequate, accessible health-care delivery systems, modern diagnostic, and therapeutic modalities has paved the way for prompt diagnosis of congenital heart defects and the institution of appropriate intervention before complications set in, thus reducing the high levels of morbidity and mortality due to these defects in developed countries. In developing countries where there is a scarcity of similarly advanced health-care delivery set up, that goal has not been attained as in case of developed countries. Hence, a regular update in the knowledge of the prevalence and causes of heart failure in children will remain a necessity for their appropriate treatment. Objectives: The objectives of the study are to analyze the incidence of cardiac failure among children and its etiological profile in a tertiary care center in Tamil Nadu, India. Materials and Methods: Children between 1 month and 12 years of age admitted with a clinical diagnosis of cardiac failure over a period of 1 year. Results: Among 7095 cases admitted during the study period, 2.09% (n = 148) of children had cardiac failure. The majority of the cases were males constituting 57.4% (n = 85) of cardiac failure cases. Among the cardiac etiologies for heart failure, congenital heart diseases (CHDs) tops the list (59.85%). The most common CHD causing heart failure is ventricular septal defect (n = 29). Anemia is the most common noncardiac cause of heart failure (n = 8).
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Krithiga Murugesan, D Sivakumaran
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