title: [Congenital heart defects as a cause of still birth and infant mortality].
abstract: Among 4,686 still-births and children died from 0 to 1 a in the German Democratic Republic in 1979 there were 307 (6.6%) isolated congenital heart diseases. We only analyzed 294 died infants. The first 5 diagnoses were: Hypoplastic left heart (all infants died within the first 28 d) 9.9%, Ventricular septal defect 9.9%, Transposition of great vessels 8.8%, Coarctation aorta 7.1%, Common truncus arteriosus 5.8%. The most important results are an interesting frequency with advancing years of mothers (3.4% in 10,000 mothers of live-births aged 16 a and less to 20.6% at the age of 40 a and over (see Fig. 1), 13% premature children (under 37 weeks of gestation), 23% children under 2,500 g birth weight, 55% boys and 45% girls. 80% of the above 294 infants died within the first 3 months.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000209:etiology*; D005859:Germany, East; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy
vernacular_title: Angeborene Herzfehler als Ursache der Totgeburtlichkeit und Säuglingssterblichkeit.