Congenital anomalies of cardiac partitioning in infant morbidity and mortality in Guantánamo

Abstract

A study was carried out to determine the behavior of congenital heart defects in fetuses and live births of pregnant women attended at the Provincial Center of Medical Genetics during the period January 2005 - December 2012. The universe is constituted by 74 live fetuses and newborns who presented congenital heart defects with cardiac defect. The primary data was collected from the clinical records of the Provincial Genetics Center of newborns at the General Teaching Hospital "Agostinho Neto". Bulbar and interventricular septal defects predominate in pregnant women with a history of arterial hypertension (AHT) and diabetes mellitus (DM). The most affected embryo structure was the membranous portion of the interventricular septum and the trunk-conical ridges and the most used treatment was the surgical-medical.