Prevalence of congenital heart disease diagnosed or treated by cardiac catheterism in pediatrics

Abstract

Objective: To determine the most frequent congenital heart diseases diagnosed by cardiac catheterization in the pediatric population of the north coast of Colombia, during the period 2007 to 2016. Materials and methods: Descriptive, retrospective and multicentric study; the population corresponds to the total number of patients between 0 and 18 years of age in which diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization was performed in different cities of the Colombian north coast in the period 2007 to 2016. Epi Info 7.0 software was used for tabulation of information. Total sample was conformed of 4.245 patients. Results: The sex mostly involved was the female with 53.5%, a mean age of 3.9 ± 4.9 years, with a higher prevalence between 1 and 11 months of life with 40.6%. Conclusions: The ventricular septal defect was the most frequent congenital heart disease diagnosed by cardiac catheterization with 29.2%, followed in frequency by the persistent conducto with 23.1%, the atrial septal defect 11.7%, tetralogy of Fallot with 6.8%, pulmonary stenosis with 6.7%, transposition of large vessels 3.5%, pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect 2.5%, total AV channel 2.4%, double right ventricular outlet 2.4%, coarctation of aorta on 1 %, mitral insufficiency 0.98%, tricuspid atresia 0.96%, pulmonary atresia without ventricular septal defect 0.73%, double right ventricular outlet 0.5% and other malformations 4.2%.