Resumen

ACOSTA BATISTA, Carlos  y  MULLINGS PEREZ, Rosali. Characterization of Live Birth with Congenital Malformations. Medisur [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.3, pp. 375-382. ISSN 1727-897X.

Background: the congenital malformations constitute the first cause of infantile death in developed countries, as well as the second cause of death in Cuba, in younger children of an elderly year. Objective: characterizing the live birth newborns with congenital malformations at Marianao municipality during the year 2011. Methods: descriptive, cross-section study of 30- live birth with congenital malformations at Marianao municipality in Havana, during the year 2011. Some of analyzed variables were: sex, affected system, congenital malformation, type of malformation, severity, birth weight, gestational age, prenatal diagnosis, family history of congenital malformation, maternal age, among others. Results: the masculine sex was the more affected, with 18 cases that represented the 60 %. The Polydactyl was the malformation further frequent, with 23.3 %, followed by the pre-aural appendix, with 10 %. The 20 % was born pre-term and only in the 10 % of the cases was obtained a positive result in the tests of prenatal diagnosis. Conclusions: the live birth with MC were characterized to be males with isolated MC and less severe, full term, normopeso, without family history of the aforementioned affection and with a negative prenatal diagnosis. The majority of mothers belonged to 20-35’s age group years, they suffered from hypertension and during pregnancy, the principal diseases that they presented were the sepsis and anemia.

Palabras clave : congenital abnormalities; live birth; infant, newborn; cuba.

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