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Volume 4 Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN: 2471-805X
Page 18
JOINT EVENT
Pediatric Critical Care 2018 &
World Pediatrics 2018
October 18- 20 , 2018
October 18- 20, 2018 Warsaw, Poland
&
6th International Conference on
25th World Pediatrics Conference
Pediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
Yash R Dalal, J Pediatr Care 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C4-014
Anthropometric profiles of congenital heart disease in children
Yash R Dalal
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, DMIMS, India
Background: Congenital heart disease is often associated with malnutrition and failure to thrive in children. The prediction
factors of growth deficit and nutrition status in children with congenital heart diseases remain unclear.
Aim: To determine the nutritional status of children with congenital heart disease.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in children aged 0-5 years old with CHD in AVBRH hospital. All patients
underwent an anthropometric evaluation (weight, length and head circumference) at presentation. Undernutrition, failure to
thrive (FTT) and microcephaly were determined according to WHO, weight-for-length, weight-for-age, length-for-age, head
circumference-for-age z-score <-2SD accordingly.
Results: We had total of 125 patients, 80 patients with acyanotic and 45 patients with cyanotic lesions. VSD was found to be
the most common acyanotic disease and TOF was found to be the most common cyanotic CHD. Prevalence of undernutrition
in CHD was 62%, with 35% severe undernutrition. FTT was found in 72%, and microcephaly in 28% patients. In acyanotic,
weight was affected more than length.
Conclusion: Children with CHD are frequently undernourished, irrespective of the nature of cardiac defect. FTT was found
higher in acyanotic lesions. Acyanotic heart diseases were found to be more common than cyanotic disease.
Biography
Yash R Dalal has completed his MBBS at Grant Government Medical College and Sir J J Group of Hospitals, at Maharashtra University of Health Sciences,
Mumbai. He is currently pursuing his Post-graduation in the Department of Pediatrics, at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College at Datta Meghe Institute of Medical
Sciences, Sawangi(Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra.