[Mortality of children and adolescents in Poland caused by congenital cardiovascular system malformations, in 1961-1971 (author's transl)].
Congenital cardiovascular system malformations (including more than 90 per cent of heart malformations) constitute the largest group among patients with congenital malformations. The high mortality of children with these malformations in the first year of life (with the greatest threat in the first month of life) subsequently diminishes. The mortality rates of infants from congenital cardiovascular system malformations high in Poland and are exhibit no tendency to decrease. In opposition to countries with a generalized, efficient cardiological, particularly cardiosurgical treatment (Table I). The rate of occurrence of congenital circulatory system malformations amounts to 8 per 1000 live-born children. Consequently about 4300 children are born annually in Poland with cardiovascular malformations. With the present development of surgical and anesthesiological technique, and according to the kind of heart malformation, the indications for cardiosurgery include some 1,400 children annually with congenital heart and great arteries annually. In the last years annually some 200-250 cardiac operations and surgery of great arteries in children are performed in Poland; this amounts to 15 per cent of the present need.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland
Umieralność dzieci i młodziezy w Polsce z powodu wad wrodzonych układu krazenia w latach 1961-1970