Growth, development, and quality of life in children with congenital heart disease

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Despite the advances in medical and surgical care have improved the survival rates of children with congenital heart disease (CHD), they still remain risky for nutritional, cognitive problems, and quality of life. Those impacts vary according to the severity of heart lesions and still manifested years after surgery. AIM: The objective of this study was to compare growth, development, and quality of life between cyanotic and acyanotic CHD. METHODS: The study was performed on 52 patients aged 24–69 months old from June to January 2018 in Sanglah Pediatric Cardiology clinic used WHO Anthro software, The Mullen Scales of Early Learning and PedsQL Cardiac module. RESULTS: We found significant different proportion of underweight 11.5% in acyanotic children, 42.3% in cyanotic by weight/age z-score