title: [Epidemiological and clinical findings in congenital heart diseases during the neonatal period. Report on personal cases].
abstract: Cardiovascular impairment is frequent in the neonatal period and can be linked to malformative and non malformative pathologies. The Authors performed a retrospective study on the incidence of these two types of pathologies in a population of 3326 newborns who underwent cardiological examination. Malformative cardiopathy was observed in 779 (23.4%) of them, while non malformative cardiopathy was present in 316 (9.5%). Acyanogen forms (86.7%) were more common than cyanogen forms (13.2%) in malformative, while cyanogen forms (64.8%) were more frequent than acyanogen ones (35.1%) in non malformative cardiopathies. The Authors reviewed the incidence of the single cardiac defects and report some clinical and physiopathological considerations that underline the need for prompt differential diagnosis and the validity of echocardiography in achieving this aim.
authors.affiliation: Cattedra di Neonatologia e Servizio Autonomo di Cardiologia Pediatrica, Università di Catania, Italia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Distefano
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sciacca
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marletta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mattia
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tornambene
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Romeo
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Rilievi epidemiologici e clinici sulle cardiopatie congenite in epoca neonatale. Contributo casistico personale.