RISK FACTORS FOR PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS

To identify risk factors for the development of pneumonia in children against the background of congenital heart defects.

Materials and methods of research: 45 children aged from 1 year to 3 years were examined. Of these, 25 children with community-acquired pneumonia due to congenital heart disease (group I) and 20 children with community-acquired pneumonia without congenital heart disease (group II). To solve these problems, the following generally accepted and special clinical, functional and laboratory research methods were performed.

Results: The research results showed that among the identified clinical variants of congenital heart defects, there were 14 (56%) children with VSD, 20% of children with ASD, 16% of children with combined defects and 8% of children with PDA.

The study of medical and biological factors showed that in children of the 1st group girls predominated (60%), in the 2nd group boys were more common (75%). The mother's age was over 35 years at the time of the birth of this child, which prevailed in 1 group of children (24%) and in 16% of children the parents were close relatives. in children of group 1, in fact, among concomitant diseases, children with rickets prevailed in 80%, children with PPNS 48%, children with neurocirculatory dystonia 60%, and children with hip dysplasia in 24% of children