Temporal Trend of Congenital Heart Diseases in Iraqi Patients: An Analytic Study from Two Cardiac Institutions

Abstract

Background: Congenital heart diseases are group of pathologies that involve the cardiovascular system since birth but their diagnosis might delay years then after.

Objective: This thesis focuses on the pattern of these anomalies in two Iraqi cardiac centers.

Method: Prospective cross-sectional study involves all the newly diagnosed patient with congenital heart diseases for eight months duration, in (IBN Al-Nafees Cardiovascular Teaching hospital and IRAQI Center of Cardiac Diseases) in Baghdad-Iraq.

Results: more than 200 patients involve in the study; Cardiac murmur was the comments presenting clinical finding to seek medical advice, VSD is the most frequent diagnosis.12% of the patient were syndromic with down syndrome was the most common enfaced clinical syndrome.

Conclusion: VSD is the most common A cyanotic CHD, While TOF is the most common cyanotic one.

Ventricular septal defect, Tetralogy of Fallot, Down syndrome

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