[Epidemiologic and clinical features of congenital heart diseases in children at the Bizerta Hospital].
The aim of this study is to establish the epidemiologic profile of congenital heart disease in newborns in a Tunisian department of the north west of Tunisia.


METHODS
We report 79 cases of congenital heart defects treated which are followed up in the department of general paediatrics in the University Hospital of Bizerta during 9 years. The informations concerning the patients is taking to a data file. The newborns included had a congenital heart disease suspected clinicly or confirmed by a cardiac echography.


RESULTS
The sex-ratio was 0,79 with a mean of weight birth of 3075 g. The prematurity reaches 20.1%. The consanguinity was 30.5%. Congenital heart defects were detected the first week of life in 47% with a murmur on 77.6%, cyanosis on 70%, dyspnea on 89%. The annual incidence was evaluated 2.5% per hundred. One hundred and Twelve heart defects were diagnosed. The medical treatment was indicated on 46.3% and the surgery on 22.5%. Mortality was on 23.8%.


CONCLUSIONS
Congenital heart disease particularly in neonatal period are crippled by a high morbidity and mortality, it's a case of emergency in pediatric cardiology.
Hammami
Olfa
O
Service de pédiatrie, hôpital régional de Bizerte.
Ben Salem
Khadija
K
Boujemaa
Zied
Z
Chebbi
Yosser
Y
Aoun
Sayda
S
Meddeb
Insaf
I
Abid
Fadia
F
Gandoura
Najwa
N
D000328:Adult; D001724:Birth Weight; D003241:Consanguinity; D003490:Cyanosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000453:epidemiology; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006337:Heart Murmurs / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008297:Male; D008423:Maternal Age; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology