Iqbal Hussain is the Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pakistan.
Abstract
Objective: To determine gender distribution and relative frequency of cardiac defects in children who underwent palliative or corrective cardiac surgery at Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department at NICVD, Karachi, Pakistan.
Methodology: This retrospective cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Karachi, Pakistan from October 2013 till September 2015. 1004 patients up to age group of 14 years admitted for Cardiac Surgery at Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) were included.
Results: Out of 1004 patients, there were 683 males (68%) and 321 females (32%). Patients presented with cyanotic heart disease were 578 (57.5%) while acynotic patients were 426 (42.4%). Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) followed by Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) was the commonest congenital heart lesions, 42.8% and 20%, respectively.
Conclusion: Majority of patients with pediatric heart disease had cyanotic CHD with the commonest lesion being Tetralogy Of Fallot (TOF). Most of the patients were more than one year (70%) with significant difference in sex distribution with male predominance.
