[Characteristics of neonates whose mothers have congenital and acquired heart disease]

It was made a study of the body dimensions, Apgar evaluation, and frequency of innate body defects in 141 new-borns by mothers with innate and acquired heart valvular defects. It was found that the average values of body weight, height, and the evaluation with Apgar of the new-borns by mothers with heart defects do not deviate from the average values of the same indices of new-borns by healthy mothers. Despite that 90% of the young mothers with heart defects are with light to moderate degree of the heart defect, and with I or II functionality class, the percent of their new-borns born prematurely is big--31.9, compared to 6.6 for new-borns by healthy mothers. In 2.8% of the new-borns by mothers with heart defects, hypotrophy is observed, and in 3.5%--clinical criteria for immaturity. Perinatal death rate is 0.7% and zero for the control group of new-borns--ones born by healthy women. Six cases (6.7%) of new-borns by mothers with heart defects had innate body defects, 4 (4.5%) of which were innate heart defects. The frequency and the kind of the congenital defects in new-borns by mothers with heart defects is discussed.