Clinical epidemiological characterization of congenital heart disease in children at the Honduran Social Security Institute

Abstract

Background: Congenital malformations that most frequently determine infant malformations are heart malformations, which cause 30% of deaths in pediatric patients. Robert Gross performed the first surgery in a patient with congenital heart disease (CHD) in 1939. Since then, it has become a very important procedure in medicine and public health.

The objective of the study was to characterize clinically and epidemiologically patients who had CHD at the Northern Regional Hospital of the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS-HRN) from January to October 2015.

Patients and Methods: a descriptive study was conducted at the HRN- IHSS, the universe was 859 patients seen and the sample was 551 patients in whom the presence of CHD was confirmed. The data was obtained from daily reports attentions between the months of January to October 2015.

Results: There were 551 patients with CHD. 294 (53.35%) patients were male and 257 (46.65%) were female. 265 (48.1%) had 1-2 years of age. 191 (34.66%) of the children had atrial septal defect (ASD).

Conclusions: CHD affects males and the diagnosis is made in the first two years of life.

Acta Pediátrica Hondureña, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abril 2015 a Septiembre 2015: 415-420