Diagnóstico prenatal de cardiopatías congénitas
PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS OF CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS FOR DETECTING CARDIAC MALFORMATIONS
Prensa méd. argent; 103 (2), 2017
Publication year: 2017
Congenital heart defects or congenital
cardiac malformations represent one of the
major causes of death in children younger
than 1 year. The incidence varies between 4
- 13 for each 1000 newborns. Represents the
severe structural malformation of the higher prevalence worldwide. In the “Professor
A. Posadas Hospital” during the year 2015,
it was registered a frequency of congenital
anomalies of 7,1 % , being in the first place
the musculoskeletal malformations with
19,4 %, and in the second place we can find
the cardiovascular manifestations with 18.1
%. It is important the prenatal diagnosis in
order to carry out an assessment to their parents, to reach the birth in a high complexity
center and in the possible case, to plan the
possibility of performing a fetal therapy.
There exists scientific evidence that proves
that the prenatal diagnosis improves the
neonatal survival, even being this anomalies the less diagnosticated during the prenatal period These considerations are discussed
in the article.