Pattern of Presentation of Congenital Heart Diseases in Children

Abstract

Objective: To determine the pattern of presentation and clinical features in patients with Congenital Heart Disease admitted in Pediatric department, Saidu Teaching Hospital Swat.

Study Design: Descriptive / Cross-sectional study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Department of Pediatrics, Saidu Teaching Hospital Swat, from March 2018 to September 2018.

Materials and Methods: In this study 120 children fulfilling the inclusion criteria were enrolled after getting informed consent. The information obtained was organized on a predesignedproforma and descriptive statistics were applied on the collected data.

Results: In this study, the male to female ratio was 1.9: 1. Most of the children with Congenital Heart Disease presented below one year of age (57.5%), followed by 30.8% of children whose age ranged from 1 to 5 years and only 11.6% presented above 5 years.  65% of the patients presented with Respiratory distress. Fever (47.5%) and feeding difficulty (40.8%) were other common symptoms. Tachypnoea (59.1%) was the most common sign observed followed by tachycardia (55%), murmur (54.1%) and hepatomegaly (48.3%).

Conclusion: In our study, the most common clinical presentation of children with congenital heart disease was respiratory distress and tachypnea, most of them doing so below one year of age.