Clinical profile and mortality of children with congenital cardiopathy submitted to surgery

Objective: To make a clinical and epidemiological characterization of children with congenital heart disease submitted to cardiac surgery at a referral hospital in Paraíba and correlate these data with death. Materials and Methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional, retrospective study with 101 children. Categorical variables were presented in tables. To determinethe associations of dependence, the Fisher's exact Chi-Square test was used and analyses were run in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, adopting a significance level of 5%. Results: Most of the children were infants (40.6%), of the female sex (55.4%), and they were discharged in 81.2% of cases. Acyanotic heart disease (83.3%) of the Interventricular Communication type (24.8%) prevailed, and 87.1% cases had definitive surgery using Extracorporeal Circulation in 60.4%. Discussion: There was a significant relationship between death and type of surgery, type of heart disease, and intercurrence in the trans- and post-operative period. The most common cardiopathies that led to death were the Right Ventricle Hypoplasia and Transposition of the Large Arteries. Conclusion: Based on the logic of health care provided to the children with congenital heart diseases, there was a high proportion of definitive surgeries and low mortality. The guarantee of access to specialized care provides a better quality of life and a higher survival rate for these children.