Records of Congenital Heart Diseases in Children under One Year in the State of Ceará - Abstract
The objective of this research was to describe the occurrence of cases of congenital heart disease in children under one year of age registered in health information systems in the state of Ceará, Brazil, from 2010 to 2015. It is a descriptive study of cases of congenital heart disease in the state of Ceará. We refer to the time window from 01/01/2010 to 12/31/2015, of children under 01 (one) year of age (observing the possible outcome of death in the following year up to 11 months and 29 days of life), codes Q20.0 to Q28.9 ICD-10. At Sinasc, 770,999 live births were observed for the years indicated in the survey, of this number 221 children were diagnosed with some congenital heart malformation, totaling 3.5 children for every 1000 live births. In the SIM,
the recorded values of 739 deaths due to congenital heart malformations among children under one year old stand out, resulting in 6.35% of all infant deaths in this period. There were 145,445 hospitalizations of children under one year of age in the state, with 2,333 hospitalizations for procedures and treatments related to congenital malformations of the circulatory system. The correct information for databases and the performance of specific tests for early diagnosis of congenital cardiac malformations is extremely relevant.