[Echocardiographic abnormalities in infants with heart murmur].

OBJECTIVES

Congenital heart diseases are very serious problem of current perinatology. Early detection of congenital heart diseases and new possibilities of their treatment have decreased mortality rate in neonates.

THE AIM OF THE STUDY: Was to present the reasons of the heart murmurs found in newborns, based on postnatal echocardiography.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

The study group consisted of 107 neonates born in The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic of Medical University in Warsaw in the period from 1st October, 2001 until 30th September, 2002, found to have murmurs during the observation in The Neonatology Department.

RESULTS

Heart murmurs were detected in 107 infants out of 1291 born in The Clinic in this period. Out of the study group, echocardiography results were normal in fourteen children, and in ninety-three patients the echocardiography revealed one of the following abnormalities: persistent foramen ovale (FO), persistent ductus arteriosus (PDA), ventricular septum defect (VSD), insufficiency of tricuspid valve (IT) and others.

CONCLUSIONS

The most frequently observed abnormality in echocardiography in infants with heart murmur was persistent foramen ovale. The rate of heart abnormalities was the highest in infants with birth weight below 1500 G.