Frecuencia y características clínicas de la corrección de las cardiopatías congénitas mediante transcateterismo en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga y Santa Inés, 2009-2011

Abstract

Introduction. Congenital heart defects left to their natural course have a high mortality. In our region is still driving through open heart surgery 12 years ago. From 2009 on Joseph Hospital and Saint Agnes Carrasco Arteaga began therapy with percutaneous closure by transcatheter.

Objectives. Describe the frequency and clinical features of congenital heart diseasecorrected by Transcatheter.

Material and methods. With a descriptive observational data collected from the medical records of patients with congenital heart disease from October 2009 to December 2011 in the hospitals indicated.

Results. Information was collected from 135 patients whose ages ranged from 1 to 80 years. The casuistry represents an acyanotic heart rate of 23 for every ten thousand queries. The findings were: subset of the most prevalent age of 1-19 years in 60.8% of cases, the women were the most affected (62.2%) were overweight in 16.3% of patients. There was a family history of heart disease (42.2%), CIA (40.7%) was more frequent than PCA (31.9%) and VSD (27.4%). The clinic was manifested by dyspne a grade I (26.7%), grade I Heart failure was the most common comorbidity (16.3%). 59.3% of the series were hospitalized for 24 hours presenting embolism as a complication (3.7%). The mortality rate was 0.7%.

Discussion. Some results of this collection differ from those published in the medical literature but treatment in hospitals where the study was performed transcatheter has meant a promising alternative especially for the low frequency of complications.