Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Albert Royer National Children's Hospital, Dakar, Senegal

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• Research Article   
  Congenital Cyanogenic Heart Disease in Children: About 420 Cases in Africa
  Author(s): Amadou Lamine Fall, Djibril Boiro, Indou Deme Ly and Amadou Sow*
  
  Congenital Cyanogenic Heart Diseases (CCHD) is a malformation of the heart and large vessels characterized by an oxygen desaturation in the arterial blood, responsible for cyanosis. The general objective was to study the profile of CCHD in Senegalese hospitals. This is a retrospective study carried out over a period of 8 years (January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2017) and including all children aged 0 to 16 years followed for a CCHD. The hospital prevalence was 0.87% for 420 cases collected. The sex ratio was 1.44 and the average age at diagnosis was 16 months. First degree parental consanguinity was noted in 36 cases (30.78%). The main reasons for consultation were breathing difficulty in 242 cases (57.62%) and fever in 136 patients (32.36%). Apart from cyanosis, the clinical signs were dominated by the heart murmur in 313 cases (74.7%), tachycardia in 283 cases (67.38%) and digital hipp.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.21.18.379

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