Nature and timing of diagnosis of the 77 critical and serious cardiac anomalies
| Cardiac lesion | Antenatal diagnosis | Other malformation | Admitted direct to NNU | Symptoms before saturation screen | Resulting from saturation screen | Symptoms after –ve saturation screen | Routine newborn examination | Home undiagnosed | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IAA | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ao stenosis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| AVSD | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Coarctation | 2 | 1 | 1, 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2, 2 | 8, 4 | |
| Complex | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Fallot | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |||
| HLH | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Misc | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| PA/IVS | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| PA/VSD | 2, 1 | 1, 2 | 1 | 3, 4 | |||||
| Single ventricle | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| TAPVC | 1, 1 | 1, 1 | |||||||
| TGA | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ||||
| Truncus | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| VSD | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | |||
| Totals | 10, 8 | 2, 5 | 2, 5 | 2 | 5, 5 | 1 | 11 | 5, 15 | 27, 50 |
Bold=Critical, Italics=Serious.
For definitions of ‘critical’ and ‘serious’ see text.
Ao arch hypoplasia, aortic arch hypoplasia; Ao Atr/St, aortic valve atresia or stenosis; AVSD, atrioventricular septal defect; CoA/IAA, coarctation of the aorta or interrupted aortic arch; DORV, double-outlet right ventricle; Fallot, Fallot’s tetralogy; HLHS, hypoplastic left heart syndrome; PA+IVS, pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum; PA+VSD, pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect; PS, pulmonary stenosis; Single vent, single ventricle; TAPVC, total anomalous pulmonary venous connection; TGA, transposition of the great arteries; Tricuspid Atr, tricuspid atresia; Truncus, truncus arteriosus.