Congenital Heart Disease Pattern in Salah-Al-Deen Governorate-Iraq

The aims of study to evaluate the relation between occurrence of the CHDs and history of consanguinity. This observational cross-sectional hospital based study involved (171) patients attend to the pediatrics clinic at Salah Aldeen General hospital, was done during the period from 1st April-30th September 2017. The cases were categorized according to types of cardiac malformation, age of diagnosis, sex distribution, associated consanguinity as first cousin, second cousin and no relation. Among 171 patients of congenital heart disease, 91(53.3%) of patients were females and 80(46.7%)of patients were males. The study showed that most patients attending hospital were at age 1-5year 81(47%), while those below 1month were the least number15 (9%). The most cases were underweight 99 (57%), and the most common sign was heart murmur161 (94.2%) followed by cough and fever51(29.8%). Sixty seven percent of cases had abnormal chest X-ray and 31% of abnormal chest X-ray had cardiac abnormality which include cardiomegaly, abnormal shape of the heart, abnormal position of the heart.