title: [Echocardiographic abnormalities in infants with heart murmur].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Congenital heart diseases are very serious problem of current perinatology. Early detection of congenital heart diseases and new possibilities of their treatment have decreased mortality rate in neonates.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Was to present the reasons of the heart murmurs found in newborns, based on postnatal echocardiography.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study group consisted of 107 neonates born in The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic of Medical University in Warsaw in the period from 1st October, 2001 until 30th September, 2002, found to have murmurs during the observation in The Neonatology Department.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Heart murmurs were detected in 107 infants out of 1291 born in The Clinic in this period. Out of the study group, echocardiography results were normal in fourteen children, and in ninety-three patients the echocardiography revealed one of the following abnormalities: persistent foramen ovale (FO), persistent ductus arteriosus (PDA), ventricular septum defect (VSD), insufficiency of tricuspid valve (IT) and others.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most frequently observed abnormality in echocardiography in infants with heart murmur was persistent foramen ovale. The rate of heart abnormalities was the highest in infants with birth weight below 1500 G.
authors.affiliation: Oddzial Neonatologii I Katedry i Klinik Połoznictwa i Ginekologii AM w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Bozena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kociszewska-Najman
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zacharska-Kokot
authors.forename: Justyna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kulikowska-Matłosz
authors.forename: Longin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marianowski
mesh_terms: D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors