Abstract

MARTINEZ GONZALEZ, Luis Raúl; VALLADARES HERNANDEZ, Marta  and  PEREZ MARTINEZ, Caridad. Congenital heart defect. Diagnosis and induced abortions in our province, 1994-1999. Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2001, vol.27, n.2, pp.146-151. ISSN 0138-600X.

A retrospective analytical study of the diagnoses and induced abortions due to congenital heart defect was conducted at “Justo Legón Padilla” and at the Provincial Genetics Department of Pinar del Río, from January, 1994, to December, 1999. The fetal echocardiography was preferably made between the 21st and the 26th week of gestation. During these 6 years, 499 malformations were diagnosed and there were 102 (20.5 %) induced abortions due to heart defect accompanied or not by other major or minor malformations or associated chromosomopathies. It was found that the most frequent heart defect was the common trunk. There was no statistical significance (p < 0.05) between the maternal age and the low or high alpha fetoprotein with the heart defect associated or not with malformations or chromosome abnormalities. The prenatal diagnoses by echocardiography were correlated with the Department of Pathological Anatomy.

Keywords : HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL [ultrasonography]; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, INDUCED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL.

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