EVOLUÇÃO PÓS-OPERATÓRIA IMEDIATA DE PORTADORES DE CARDIOPATIAS CONGÊNITAS SUBMETIDOS À CIRURGIA CARDÍACA NO HU-UFMA

Abstract

Congenital heart disease are a group of rare defects highly associated with mortality in infancy. In the past 25 years great improvements on the care of this patients had lead us to an augmentation in the number of surgeries but still persists differences among all centers that perform surgery for congenital heart defects. The aim of this study was identify risk factors associated with poor outcomes after cardiac surgery in a population under 18 year old at the Cardiac Surgery Unit of The University Hospital of The Federal University of Maranhao. The period of the study was from June 2001 through June 2004. There were 145 patients,of which 62% were female, with median age of 5,1 years old, 56% came from the capital of the state and 11% had another associated congenital abnormality. The RACHS-1 classification(Risk adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery) was applied to classify the adjusted risk for each surgical procedures. The risk factors identified were age, type of cardiopathy, pulmonary blood flow, cardiopulmonary bypass-time and aortic clamp time. The RACHS-1 score was applied to all 145 patients, and demonstrated increased risk of mortality for those patients in the higher score groups, although the rate found in this study was higher than that estimated by the RACHS-1 .