Spontaneous closure of isolated ventricular septal defects in the first year of life

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spontaneous closure rate in the first year of life.

Methods : A retrospective study of 50 patients (27 males, and 23 females) age range between 1 day to 4 months (mean age 35.9±26.4 days) with isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) and no other cardiac lesion was performed in whom the condition was observed during the period from 1st of June 2013 to the 1st of June 2014 in the Pediatric Echocardiography Unit/ Babylon maternity and children teaching hospital Objective: Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common heart defect that’s present at birth (congenital).

The defect involves an opening (hole) in the heart forming between the heart’s lower chambers, allowing oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood to mix.

The aim of this study was to correlate the size and location of isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) withResults: A total of 50 infants were followed, spontaneous closure occurred in 21 (42%) cases.

Fourteen (63.6%) cases of small, 7 (30.4%) cases of moderate and none of the patients with large VSDs had spontaneous closure.

Spontaneous closure was noted in 15 (41.7%) of 36 cases of peri membranous defects and in 6 (60%) of 10 patients with muscular VSD.

Conclusions: About two thirds of the small (66.7%) and one third (33.3%) of moderate size ventricular septal defect (VSD) had spontaneous closure by first year of age.

Muscular VSDs close spontaneously at arate higher than peri membranous VSDs in first year of age.