Survival Status And It’s Associated Factors Among Under Five Children Managed With Congenital Heart Diseases In Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital and Cardiac Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2022/2023: A Retrospective Cohort Study
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2023
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Congenital heart disease CHD is the most prevalent significant congenital
abnormality, affecting around 9 out of every 1000 live infants. The aggregated 1-year and 5-
year survival rates for patients with congenital heart disease from 6 and 8 studies for all CHD
were 87.0% and 85.4%, respectively.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess survival status and related factors among
under-five infants with congenital heart disorders treated at TASH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
and Cardiac Centre from January 2018 to December 2022.
Methods: An Institution based retrospective follow-up study design was used among under-
five children managed with congenital heart disease that were admitted at TASH and Cardiac
Center, Ethiopia; registered from Jan 2018 to Dec 2022. Data was collected by pretested
checklist from 224 randomly selected charts. The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, the log-rank
test, and the effect of each covariate on mortality using cox proportional hazard are used to
measure survival status in various groups. For data analysis, SPSS version 26 was employed.
Result : Total of 224 charts with 95.32% response rate were analyzed to determine survival
status and associated factors of under-five children managed with CHD and 34 of them died
whereas 190 of them were censored during the study period. The survival status of all infants
born with CHD in this study was 84.8% to five years. Cox regression analysis identified
covariates significantly associated with mortality as weight at admission (AHR 19.023,95% CI
[2.542,142.925]; P = 0.004), types of interventions (AHR73.016,95% CI [3.226,1652.2]; P =
0.007), pre-operative condition (AHR 65.097,95% CI [11.322,374.25]; P =0.0001), family
history of heart disease (AHR 10.81,95% CI [2.218,52.673]; P = 0.003), maternal history of
substance use (AHR 46.67,95% CI [4.405,494.31]; P = 0.001) and maternal history of viral
infection (AHR 52.034,95% CI [7.320,369.83]; P< 0.0001).
Conclusion and recommendation: The survival status of all infants born with CHD in this
study was 84.8% to five years. Weight at type of interventions, preoperative condition, other
maternal condition are associated with survival. The early cardiac intervention and priority for
critical CHD are among recommendation to improve survival.
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Congenital heart disease, Survival status, associated factors, Cox regression, log rank, Kaplan Meier.