SOME ASPECTS OF THE CHILDREN DISABILITY, AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES

Congenital heart diseases (CHD) make a significant contribution to the rates of child disability and mortality, especially in children of the first year of life, require significant economic costs for surgical correction, for social assistance to disabled children.A comprehensive analysis showed that the operative correction of the CHD, even radical, is not always make it possible to completely eliminate the violation of blood circulation functions, eliminate or reduce the limitations of the main categories of children’s activity. The research data correlate with the classification of the CHD correction types, proposed by Friedli and based on the likelihood that a patient will need surgery in the future.This classification and the results of the research can be used in the practice of pediatricians and children’s cardiologists and specialists of the MSE in the direction of the medico-social expert examination for prediction of functional disorders of blood circulation in children after surgical correction of the CHD, for the planning of rehabilitation measures and for the choice of tactic of further scrutiny.

disability, congenital heart diseases, surgical correction, chronic heart failure, and circulatory insufficiency