Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of birth defect. As CHD accounts for frequent cause lethal malformation among infants, also considered a major problem affecting public health worldwide. Objective: To assess pattern congenital diseases and associated risk factors under-14 children admitted in selected hospital. Methods: It was cross sectional analytical study c...

The benefits of surgical treatment for patients with congenital heart disease in relation to pregnancy are still controversial. We studied 48 pregnant women (mean age = 25 years) with surgically-corrected congenital heart diseases (Group 1). This included 15 cyanotic diseases: Fallot's tetralogy (11 cases); Ebstein's anomaly (2 cases); transposition of the great arteries (1 case); and double ou...