Background:The progress of the cardiac intervention technique has been changed the doctors' viewpoint in the treatment for congenital cardiac. In the past years, treatment for congenital cardiac needed to surgery but nowadays, the cardiac intervention technique are being applied in many Cardiac Centers with very good results. This technique also helped to prevent the complication in cardiac operation. Objectives:This study aims to report the results for cardiac intervention in National Hospital of Pediatrics. Subjects and method:A prospective study was conducted on 298 children diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus, atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect, coarctation, pulmonary stenosis (PS), aortic stenosis (AS), small patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) infant with pulmonary atresia - ventricular septal defect (VSD) and Dextro- transposition of the great arteries (d- TGA) with intact ventricular septum at National hospital of Pediatric between June 2004and October 2006. Results: Transcatheter closure of PDA, ASD by Amplatzer or Coil was safe and effective. Critically ill children diagnosed with PS, AS and Coarctation may be saved by valvuloplasty and angioplasty procedures. Catheter interventions avoided the needs for surgery without scars. Catheter interventions had low complications. Conclusion: The hospitalized duration was short so the expenditures reduced.
Heart Defects ; Congenital/ epidemiology ; therapy

The study included 49 patients from 1 month to 15 years old who had diagnosis of septic shock and treated at ICU of the National Hospital of Paediatrics. The result showed that: group of age<5 years is 71.4%; The male/female ratio is 2.06/1. Patients admitted to hospital from April to June (42.8%). About 90% of cases have local infections such as respiratory infection (34.7%), gastrointestinal infection (24.5%), skin, musle and bone infections (22.4%). All of them have uncompensated shock with symptoms of poor tissue perfusion and hypodynamic; disorded status (100%); cool extremities (91.8%); refill>3 seconds (100%); drop blood pressure (69.4%); weak pulse (71.4%), oliguria and anuresis (100%) and CVP<5 cmH2O (51.2%)
Shock, Septic, Child, Diagnosis