PEDIATRICS Vol. 103 No. 4 April 1999, pp. 743-747
Failure to Diagnose Congenital Heart Disease in Infancy
Received Apr 17, 1997; accepted Sep 29, 1998.
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From the * Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC;
and the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Objective. To identify factors that predict failure to diagnose congenital heart disease in newborns.
Design. All fatal cases in the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study were compiled. The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study includes 4390 cases of infants with congenital cardiovascular malformations identified in a population-based study between 1981 and 1989 in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Death occurred in 800 such infants in the first year of life. In 76 of these infants, death occurred before diagnosis of heart disease. These cases were identified by community search of autopsy records. Their characteristics are compared with those of infants who died after a cardiac diagnosis was made.
Results. Infant characteristics (birth weight, gestational age, intrauterine growth retardation, and chromosomal anomaly) are associated with death of infants with congenital cardiovascular malformations and with death of such infants before diagnosis. Diagnoses of coarctation of the aorta, Ebstein's anomaly, atrial septal defect, and truncus arteriosus are overrepresented in infants found by community search, particularly in those infants without associated malformations. Paternal education is associated with failure to diagnose congenital heart disease in life but other sociodemographic characteristics of the infant's family are not.
Conclusions. Diagnosis of congenital cardiovascular malformations requires close observation in the neonatal period. Analysis of age at death of infants with undiagnosed congenital cardiovascular malformation suggests that such infants may be at risk if discharged within the first 2 days of life. Key words: infant mortality, congenital heart disease, health policy, newborn hospitalization.
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