Neurologic complications of cyanotic congenital heart disease

Abstract EN

Children with cyanotic congenital heart disease are at risk for neuron logic complications including cerebrovascular accidents, and cerebral abscesses.

During a period from 1989 to 1999, eight children with cyanotic heart disease who suffered from a neuron logic complication were admitted at our pediatrics ward.

They were 6 girls and 2 boys.

The age on hospitalization ranged from 6 months to 15 years.

Five patients had tetra logy of Fallot and 3 had transposition of great arteries.

There were three cases of brain abscesses.

Five patients had cerebrovascular accidents, in two of them; the sequelae were secondary to cardiac catheterization.

Prolonged uncorrected lesions, chronic hypoxemia, and polycythemmia in addition to increased blood viscosity were the most common risk factors in the patients.