2008
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-98
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Spectrum of heart diseases in a new cardiac service in Nigeria: An echocardiographic study of 1441 subjects in Abeokuta

Abstract: Background: Echocardiography is a non-invasive, relatively cheap and useful imaging technique for the evaluation of cardiac diseases. The procedure has reliable levels of accuracy.

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“…The low frequency of corpulmonale and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is similar to other studies (Ogah et al, 2008;Eyo et al, 2015). Congental heart diseases mainly ventricular septal defect was seen mostly in male children and one case of tetralogy of fallot in a female was also seen.…”
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confidence: 78%
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“…The low frequency of corpulmonale and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is similar to other studies (Ogah et al, 2008;Eyo et al, 2015). Congental heart diseases mainly ventricular septal defect was seen mostly in male children and one case of tetralogy of fallot in a female was also seen.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Dilated cardiomyopathy was next to hypertensive heart disease in our study and contributed 22.9% of cases. This is different from some other studies in Nigeria where rheumatic heart disease ranked second (James et al,2012, Ogah et al, 2008, Eyo et al, 2015. However our findings are similar to those of Ukoh (Ukoh, 2005) and pericardial diseases (12.1%) were the common heart diseases identified.…”
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confidence: 51%
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“…The low prevalence of congenital heart disease reported is also similar to what was noted from previous reports from other centres in Cameroon [12] and Malawi [34] with the findings of 2.3% and 4.0% respectively. It was also close to the 1.8% found by Ogah et al among 1441 cardiac patients referred for echocardiography in Nigeria [27]. In particular, a more recent study evaluating the echocardiographic pattern of cardiac diseases involving 1012 subjects in a North Western Nigerian tertiary health institution found a significantly low prevalence (0.3%) as congenital heart disease [17].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 57%
“…Dilated cardiomyopathy was the most frequent cardiomyopathy, accounting for 78.6% of cases in our study. This predominance was reported elsewhere [9] [13] [19] [27]. In facts, it is well documented that cardiomyopathy remains a significant cause of chronic heart failure in Ghana and other sub-Sahara African countries [18] [19] [33].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 68%