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THE FREQUENCY OF VARIOUS PATTERNS OF VALVULAR HEART LESIONS IN CHILDREN WITH RHD PRESENTING TO TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Dr Safoora Khalid, Dr Ayesha Sabir, Dr Rashida javed3, Dr Nabeela Zia, Dr Fazaila Jabeen

INTRODUCTION: Pediatric cardiac diseases are either congenital or acquired and they exhibit spectacular spectrum. Rheumatic fever is the body's response to a strep infection of the throat or tonsils or "strep throat." Rheumatic fever is thought to result from an inflammatory autoimmune response. A diagnosis of RHD is made after confirming antecedent rheumatic fever. OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of various patterns of valvular heart lesions in children with RHD presenting to tertiary care hospital. STUDY DESIGN: Cross sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Department of Cardiology, children hospital Lahore over a period of six months i.e. 4-08-16 to 4-2-17. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: After meeting the inclusion criteria 100 patients were enrolled. Informed consent was taken. The transthoracic echocardiography was done by experienced echo cardiographer and reviewed by pediatric cardiologist. All the collected data was entered and analyzed on SPSS version 20. RESULTS: In our study the mean age of the patients was 6.68±3.51 years, the male to female ratio of the patients was 0.9:1. In this study the mitral valve regurgitation, mitral stenosis and mixed mitral valve lesion was noted in 72%, 16% & 12% respectively

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