[Congenital heart defects, incidence and course up to the 8th year of life].
The incidence of congenital heart disease in children born alive in Switzerland in 1975 is estimated at 10%. Of these, 17% died within the first eight years of life (14% due to the cardiac lesion and 3% due to non-cardiac causes), with 2/3 dying within the first year of life. 33% of all these children become "normal", after successful operative correction or spontaneous closure of defects. Of the survivors, only 2% are prevented from attending normal school by the cardiac lesion, 2% are considered psycho-socially abnormal by parents or family doctor and 4% are regarded as having limited exercise tolerance due to the cardiac malformation. More problems may arise from additional non-cardiac malformations, such as chromosomal aberration. 62% of all these children need nothing more than out-patient follow-up, while 38% have had to be hospitalized due to heart disease. Of these, 31% underwent cardiac catheterization and 18% cardiac surgery within the first eight years of life. As is to be expected, there are significant differences in outcome and medical procedures depending on the nature of the cardiac lesion.
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D005082:Physical Exertion; D013557:Switzerland
Angeborene Herzfehler, Vorkommen und Verlauf bis ins 8. Lebensjahr.