Sol-sag santli dogustan kalp hastaligi olan çocuklarda pulmoner arteriyel hipertansiyonla malnütrisyonun iliskisi: Gözlemsel bir çalisma/The association between pulmonary arterial hypertension and malnutrition in children with congenital heart diseases with left-to-right shunt: an observational study

To evaluate the association between the degree of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and the level of malnutrition in children with acyanotic congenital heart diseases and left-to-right shunt, and especially to evaluate the development rates of malnutrition in patients with borderline PAH. The study was performed with data of 327 patients with acyanotic congenital heart diseases and left-to-right shunt and underwent cardiac catheterization between January 2001-February 2011. The design of the study was retrospective and observational. All patients were evaluated with anthropometric measurements, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. They were classified according to the mean pulmonary artery pressure and level of malnutrition. Chi-square, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for statistical analysis. Normally and abnormally distributed data were analyzed with Pearson and Spearman correlation tests respectively. Malnutrition was detected in 94.8% of patients with PAH and 17.2% of no PAH patients according to Gomez classification (p