Congenital Heart Disease: Epidemiological and Echocardiographic Aspects of 167 Cases at The Teaching Hospital of Lamorde / Niamey / Niger

Abstract

Introduction Congenital heart disease are abnormalities of the heart that appear during heart formation during intrauterine life [1]. Their incidence is estimated between 7 to 8 per 1,000 births, according to the literature [2]. Doppler echocardiography is nowadays the essential examination in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. This is how we decided to do this study entitled "Epidemiological and echocardiographic aspects of 167 cases at Lamorde university hospital." In order to have an inventory of congenital heart disease, In Niger.