MATERNAL CHRONIC DISEASES AS RISK FACTOR OF CYANOTIC HEART DEFECTS (FALLOT TETRALOGY & PDA) AMONG CHILDREN IN MALLAWY CITY.
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 9
Abstract
Information about known risk factors for cyanotic congenital heart defects is deficient. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between maternal chronic disease and cyanotic congenital heart disease in offspring. Cyanotic congenital heart defects (CHDs) are associated with multiple risk factors such as maternal febrile illness, maternal Hypertension (HTN), Diabetes Mellitus (DM), SLE, Epilepsy, and birth weight of the child. The current study was aimed to study the relationship between some maternal chronic diseases and the development of common cyanotic congenital heart defects. A cross-sectional study was done on patients attending the pediatric outpatient clinic in Mallawy general hospital from October 2016 to April 2017. A total of 100 patients were included in the study. It was found that the most 2 common types of cyanotic congenital heart diseases were PDA and Fallot tetralogy there was a positive significant association (p<0.05) between ( maternal DM, maternal HTN, maternal infection and maternal history of receiving medications) and occurrence of cyanotic CHD
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Khaled Hussein M. I. El dessouki, Mohamed Ahmed Bahaa el-deen.
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