Congenital heart defect with associated malformations in children.

Background: Children with multisystem involvement including congenital heart defect (CHD) are a very salient problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of CHD associated with malformations of other systems and to assess the modalities of treatment and perioperative mortality among patients referred to the department of pediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods: The medical records of 1856 children were reviewed retrospectively from 1997 to 2002 to establish CHD and types of associated malformations.