Childhood acquired heart diseases in Jos, north central Nigeria
Identifieur interne : 002797 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 002796; suivant : 002798Childhood acquired heart diseases in Jos, north central Nigeria
Auteurs : Fidelia Bode-Thomas ; Olukemi O. Ige ; Christopher YilgwanSource :
- Nigerian Medical Journal : Journal of the Nigeria Medical Association [ 0300-1652 ] ; 2013.
Abstract
The patterns of childhood acquired heart diseases (AHD) vary in different parts of the world and may evolve over time. We aimed to compare the pattern of childhood AHD in our institution to the historical and contemporary patterns in other parts of the country, and to highlight possible regional differences and changes in trend.
Pediatric echocardiography records spanning a period of 10 years were reviewed. Echocardiography records of children with echocardiographic or irrefutable clinical diagnoses of AHD were identified and relevant data extracted from their records.
One hundred and seventy five children were diagnosed with AHD during the period, including seven that had coexisting congenital heart disease (CHD). They were aged 4 weeks to 18 years (mean 9.844.5 years) and comprised 80 (45.7%) males and 95 (54.3%) females. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was the cause of the AHD in 101 (58.0%) children, followed by dilated cardiomyopathy (33 cases, 18.9%) which was the most frequent AHD in younger (under 5 years) children. Other AHD encountered were cor pulmonale in 16 (9.1%), pericardial disease in 15 (8.6%), infective endocarditis in 8 (4.6%) and aortic aneurysms in 2 (1.1%) children. Only one case each of endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and Kawasaki Disease were seen during the period.
The majority of childhood acquired heart diseases in our environment are still of infectious aeitology, with RHD remaining the most frequent, particularly in older children. Community-based screening and multicenter collaborative studies will help to better describe the pattern of AHD in our country. More vigorous pursuit of the Millennium development goals will contribute to reducing the burden of childhood acquired heart diseases in the country.
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DOI: 10.4103/0300-1652.108897
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Ige</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1">Department of Paediatrics, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Yilgwan, Christopher" sort="Yilgwan, Christopher" uniqKey="Yilgwan C" first="Christopher" last="Yilgwan">Christopher Yilgwan</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1">Department of Paediatrics, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Nigerian Medical Journal : Journal of the Nigeria Medical Association</title><idno type="ISSN">0300-1652</idno><idno type="eISSN">2229-774X</idno><imprint><date when="2013">2013</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec id="st1"><title>Background:</title><p>The patterns of childhood acquired heart diseases (AHD) vary in different parts of the world and may evolve over time. We aimed to compare the pattern of childhood AHD in our institution to the historical and contemporary patterns in other parts of the country, and to highlight possible regional differences and changes in trend.</p></sec><sec id="st2"><title>Materials and Methods:</title><p>Pediatric echocardiography records spanning a period of 10 years were reviewed. Echocardiography records of children with echocardiographic or irrefutable clinical diagnoses of AHD were identified and relevant data extracted from their records.</p></sec><sec id="st3"><title>Results:</title><p>One hundred and seventy five children were diagnosed with AHD during the period, including seven that had coexisting congenital heart disease (CHD). They were aged 4 weeks to 18 years (mean 9.844.5 years) and comprised 80 (45.7%) males and 95 (54.3%) females. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was the cause of the AHD in 101 (58.0%) children, followed by dilated cardiomyopathy (33 cases, 18.9%) which was the most frequent AHD in younger (under 5 years) children. Other AHD encountered were cor pulmonale in 16 (9.1%), pericardial disease in 15 (8.6%), infective endocarditis in 8 (4.6%) and aortic aneurysms in 2 (1.1%) children. Only one case each of endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and Kawasaki Disease were seen during the period.</p></sec><sec id="st4"><title>Conclusions:</title><p>The majority of childhood acquired heart diseases in our environment are still of infectious aeitology, with RHD remaining the most frequent, particularly in older children. Community-based screening and multicenter collaborative studies will help to better describe the pattern of AHD in our country. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Niger Med J</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Niger Med J</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">NMJ</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Nigerian Medical Journal : Journal of the Nigeria Medical Association</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0300-1652</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2229-774X</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd</publisher-name><publisher-loc>India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">23661900</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3644746</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">NMJ-54-51</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4103/0300-1652.108897</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Original Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Childhood acquired heart diseases in Jos, north central Nigeria</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bode-Thomas</surname><given-names>Fidelia</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ige</surname><given-names>Olukemi O.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yilgwan</surname><given-names>Christopher</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1">Department of Paediatrics, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Dr. Fidelia Bode-Thomas, Department of Paediatrics, Jos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 2076, Jos, Nigeria. E-mail: <email xlink:href="bodefide@gmail.com">bodefide@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><season>Jan-Feb</season><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>54</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>51</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright: © Nigerian Medical Journal</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2013</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><sec id="st1"><title>Background:</title><p>The patterns of childhood acquired heart diseases (AHD) vary in different parts of the world and may evolve over time. We aimed to compare the pattern of childhood AHD in our institution to the historical and contemporary patterns in other parts of the country, and to highlight possible regional differences and changes in trend.</p></sec><sec id="st2"><title>Materials and Methods:</title><p>Pediatric echocardiography records spanning a period of 10 years were reviewed. Echocardiography records of children with echocardiographic or irrefutable clinical diagnoses of AHD were identified and relevant data extracted from their records.</p></sec><sec id="st3"><title>Results:</title><p>One hundred and seventy five children were diagnosed with AHD during the period, including seven that had coexisting congenital heart disease (CHD). They were aged 4 weeks to 18 years (mean 9.844.5 years) and comprised 80 (45.7%) males and 95 (54.3%) females. Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was the cause of the AHD in 101 (58.0%) children, followed by dilated cardiomyopathy (33 cases, 18.9%) which was the most frequent AHD in younger (under 5 years) children. Other AHD encountered were cor pulmonale in 16 (9.1%), pericardial disease in 15 (8.6%), infective endocarditis in 8 (4.6%) and aortic aneurysms in 2 (1.1%) children. Only one case each of endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) and Kawasaki Disease were seen during the period.</p></sec><sec id="st4"><title>Conclusions:</title><p>The majority of childhood acquired heart diseases in our environment are still of infectious aeitology, with RHD remaining the most frequent, particularly in older children. Community-based screening and multicenter collaborative studies will help to better describe the pattern of AHD in our country. More vigorous pursuit of the Millennium development goals will contribute to reducing the burden of childhood acquired heart diseases in the country.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Acquired heart disease</kwd><kwd>dilated cardiomyopathy</kwd><kwd>Nigerian children</kwd><kwd>rheumatic heart disease</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="sec1-1"><title>INTRODUCTION</title><p>Acquired heart diseases (AHD) known to have their origins predominantly in childhood are still major public health problems in the developing world.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref> The patterns of childhood AHD also vary in different parts of the world.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref> Reports dating back three or four decades show that “idiopathic cardiomegaly,” endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF), rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and infective pericarditis were the most commonly encountered AHD among Nigerian children.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref> More recent reports indicate that there may not only be geographical differences in patterns of disease within the country, but that some diseases, notably EMF, may be disappearing.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref> The reports on childhood AHD from North-Central Nigeria have been preliminary.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref> In this 10-year retrospective review of our echocardiography records, we compare the pattern of childhood AHD in our center in North-Central Nigeria to the historical and contemporary patterns reported from other parts of the country, and aim to highlight possible regional differences and changes in trend.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="sec1-2"><title>MATERIALS AND METHODS</title><p>We reviewed our pediatric echocardiography records over a 10-year period from December 1999, when the service became available at our center, the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Jos, Plateau State, until November 2009. The pediatric cardiology unit of JUTH receives referrals from several states in North-Central Nigeria, parts of North-Western and North-Eastern Nigeria, and also from the Federal Capital Territory. All children referred to the unit for management or for echocardiography (ECHO) undergo clinical, radiologic (chest radiograph), and electocardiographic (ECG) evaluation before an ECHO is performed.</p><p>During the period under review, three different ECHO machines were in use in the hospital. From December 1999 to July 2000, a Hewlett-Packard (HP) Sonos 1250 was used. The second and third machines, a HP Sonos 1500 and a Logic Expert GE (General Electrics) ultrasound system, were in use from July 2000 to February 2006 and from July 2007 to November 2009 respectively (no machine was available for a 16-month period). All three machines had facilities for two-dimensional (2D), M-mode and color flow Doppler imaging. The latter two also had facilities for pulsed and continuous wave Doppler.</p><p>Depending on the age and size of the child and the quality of image produced, 3.5 or 5 MHz frequency transducers were used for the majority of children examined. Occasionally a 2.5 MHz frequency transducer had to be used for an older child. The number of pediatric ECHO procedures performed was limited by factors such as the availability of skilled personnel, cost of the procedure, and periods of equipment breakdown.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref> Multiple users (the same machines were used by various other services and departments in the hospital) and unstable power supplies were other factors that not only limited the access of pediatric patients to echocardiography but also contributed to recurrent breakdown of equipment.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref></p><p>Over the 10-year period, up to four different pediatricians performed ECHO examinations at different times (each after a period of training and supervision) and after the first few years, at least two of them were usually present at each ECHO session. Echocardiographic diagnoses were based on standard guidelines and on the diagnostic criteria for each acquired heart disease (AHD).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>–<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref> Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was defined by the presence of any definite evidence of valve regurgitation or stenosis seen in two planes on Doppler examination, and at least two morphologic abnormalities, such as restricted leaflet mobility, focal or generalized valvular thickening, and abnormal subvalvular thickening of the affected valve.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref> In the presence of poor LV contractility (fractional shortening less than 28%), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), another frequently encountered lesion, was diagnosed if the left ventricular (LV) dimensions were above the upper limit of normal for age,[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref>] while nondilated cardiomyopathy (NDCM) was diagnosed if the LV dimensions were within normal limits for age.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref> Information obtained from our records included age at the time of ECHO, gender, clinical indication for the ECHO, and the echocardiography findings and diagnosis. This paper is a retrospective review based primarily on ECHO diagnosis. Thus children with normal ECHO were excluded, except there was irrefutable clinical evidence of an acquired heart disease such as infective endocarditis or Kawasaki disease.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18">18</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref19">19</xref></p><p>The data were analyzed using the statistical software Epi Info<sup>®</sup> version 3.5.1 of the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Descriptive statistics including means, standard deviations, and frequencies were generated and stratified by age, gender, and heart lesions as appropriate. Means of continuous variables were compared using Student's t-test while proportions were compared using the chi-square test. The level of statistical significance was set at <italic>P</italic><0.05. Permission to publish the data was obtained from the hospital ethical committee.</p></sec><sec sec-type="results" id="sec1-3"><title>RESULTS</title><p>A total of 580 children aged 2 weeks to 18 years had echocardiographic examinations performed during the period covered by this report, of which 167 (28.8%) had various forms of acquired heart disease (AHD) as their primary diagnoses, 390 (67.2%) had congenital heart disease (CHD) only, 7 (1.2%) children had both AHD and CHD, while 16 (2.8%) had normal ECHO findings. One of the latter, a female infant, had irrefutable clinical features of Kawasaki disease. The seven children with coexisting CHD and AHD were RHD with atrial septal defect (ASD) – two cases; dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with ASD – two cases; and three cases of infective endocarditis associated with patent ductus arteriosus, congenital mitral incompetence and Fallot tetralogy respectively.</p><p>Thus a total of 175 children were diagnosed with AHD during this period. The commonest indications for ECHO in these children are displayed in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>. They comprised 80 (45.7%) males and 95 (54.3%) females and were aged between 4 weeks and 18 years (mean 9.84±4.5 years). There was no significant age difference between males (9.6 ± 4.5 years) and females (9.9±4.5 years) – <italic>P</italic>=0.31. The relative frequencies, sex distributions, and mean ages of children with different acquired heart lesions are displayed in Tables <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">2</xref>–<xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">4</xref>.</p><table-wrap id="T1" position="float"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Indications for echocardiography in 175 children with acquired heart disease</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g001"></graphic></table-wrap><table-wrap id="T2" position="float"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Age at ECHO and sex distribution of 175 children with acquired heart disease</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g002"></graphic></table-wrap><table-wrap id="T3" position="float"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Types and sex distribution of acquired heart disease in children</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g003"></graphic></table-wrap><table-wrap id="T4" position="float"><label>Table 4</label><caption><p>Ages at ECHO diagnosis of the most frequently encountered AHD</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g004"></graphic></table-wrap><sec id="sec2-2"><title>Rheumatic heart disease</title><p>Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was the most common AHD encountered. It was diagnosed in 101 (57.7%) children, including the two with coexistent atrial septal defect (ASD). No RHD patient was less than 5 years old and they were significantly older than those with the other acquired heart diseases (10.8±3.2 versus 7.7±5.4 years) – <italic>P</italic> < 0.001 [Tables <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">2</xref> and <xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">4</xref>]. The mitral valve (MV) was the most commonly affected valve - in 95% (96 cases) of the 101 RHD patients and in 96 (47.5%) of a total of 202 diseased valves. The most common isolated valve lesion was mitral incompetence (MI) which was present in 34 (32.3%) of the 101 patients with RHD while the least common was tricuspid stenosis (TS), seen in only one patient (0.95%). Furthermore, regurgitant lesions predominated while mixed valvular lesions (incompetence plus stenosis) were more frequent than isolated stenosis [<xref ref-type="table" rid="T5">Table 5</xref>]. No patient had isolated pulmonary valve pathology. All four valves were diseased in 16 (15.5%) of patients [<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure 1</xref>]. All the mitral and aortic valve lesions as well as the isolated tricuspid stenosis were associated with leaflet or cusp thickening or deformities, while majority (64.8%) of the tricuspid and pulmonary incompetences were not associated with these abnormalities, suggesting they were predominantly functional, or secondary to other valve abnormalities.</p><fig id="F1" position="float"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>Pattern of valvular involvement in 101 children with rheumatic heart disease</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g005"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="T5" position="float"><label>Table 5</label><caption><p>Pattern of valve pathology in relation to gender in 101 children with rheumatic heart disease</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="NMJ-54-51-g006"></graphic></table-wrap></sec><sec id="sec2-3"><title>Cardiomyopathies</title><p>Cardiomyopathy was present in 37 (21.1%) subjects. Those with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) were slightly younger (mean age 6.8±4.9 years) compared with other acquired heart diseases and accounted for 33 (89.2%) of all subjects with cardiomyopathy [Tables <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">3</xref> and <xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">4</xref>]. Eight (21.6%) of the children with ECHO features of DCM (dilated and poorly contractile left ventricle) were thought to have possible viral myocarditis based on a history of fever and upper respiratory tract symptoms preceding the symptoms of cardiac failure.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref20">20</xref> Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was retrospectively considered in one child who died of DCM and whose father later died of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Earlier on, a familial form of DCM had been under consideration due to history of similar illness that led to the death (in infancy) of a younger sibling. Two (5.4%) subjects (aged 9 and 16 years respectively) had nondilated but poorly contractile left ventricles, consistent with nondilated cardiomyopathy (NDCM).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref> There was one case each of EMF in a 5-year-old boy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) in an 11-year-old boy. No case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was diagnosed. However, one of the children with cor pulmonale also had septal hypertrophy.</p></sec><sec id="sec2-4"><title>Other acquired heart diseases</title><p>Other AHD diagnosed included cor pulmonale and pericardial disease in 16 (9.1%) and 15 (8.6%) respectively. Infective endocarditis was diagnosed in eight (4.4%) subjects; it was associated with rheumatic heart disease in four children, congenital heart disease in three and dilated cardiomyopathy in one child. Rarer forms of AHD encountered were aortic aneurysm and nondilated cardiomyopathy (two subjects each), and one each of endomyocardial fibrosis, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and Kawasaki disease – <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">Table 3</xref>.</p><p>Cor pulmonale was secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis in four children (two of whom also had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection), sickle cell anemia in two and to poorly treated bacterial pneumonia and suspected broncho-pulmonary dysplasia (the latter in a former preterm) in one case each. The aeitology in the other eight children could not be ascertained.</p><p>The 15 patients with pericardial disease included two (13.3%) cases each of constrictive pericarditis (with pulmonary tuberculosis), myo-pericarditis (massive effusions in association with poorly contractile ventricles) and possible pyogenic pericardial effusion (ECHO evidence of organization of the effusion). In the remaining nine children, no direct pointers (clinical or ECHO) to the possible etiologies were found. However, viral pericarditis was considered very likely in the absence of any other systemic disease manifestations.</p><p>Four of the eight children with infective endocarditis had visible vegetations. These were on the anterior mitral leaflets of a 12-year-old girl with multivalvular RHD, a 9-year-old boy with NDCM and a 2-year-old girl with DCM; the fourth was in the main pulmonary artery of a boy with a patent ductus arteriosus. The other four children with no vegetations had underlying congenital (two boys) or rheumatic (two girls) heart disease but with compelling clinical features of infective endocarditis. All four eventually responded to prolonged high dose intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, but only one of them had a positive blood culture (this was a 9-year-old boy with Fallot tetralogy whose blood culture grew <italic>Staphylococcus aureus</italic>).</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion" id="sec1-4"><title>DISCUSSION</title><p>Although based only on patients that came to specialist medical attention and thus not representative of the community prevalence of the various acquired heart diseases (AHD) in the region, our data nevertheless provide insight into the types of AHD common among children in Jos, North Central Nigeria, and by extension the rest of the region. They also provide a basis for comparison with similar studies; for example, we found relatively fewer children with AHD than with congenital heart disease (CHD) – in tandem with recent similar studies from other parts of the country and older studies from some developed countries.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref> It however contrasts with community-based data from Egypt as reported by Refat <italic>et al</italic>.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref> who screened 8,000 school children and found predominantly rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The difference highlights the afore-mentioned varying emphases of hospital-based studies such as ours (which largely reflect the healthcare seeking behavior of the population) compared with community-based ones that better reflect disease epidemiology. This conclusion may however not be as straightforward as might at first appear.</p><p>School-age children are recognized as having the highest risk and prevalence of RHD but only the symptomatic ones are likely to present in hospital. Thus milder cases may not be captured in a hospital-based study. Also, the natural history of CHD is such that its prevalence reduces with age since the most severe cases die early without intervention. Others develop dramatic symptoms at a young age, prompting their families to seek early medical attention. RHD on the other hand, may evolve rather insidiously, with many patients presenting to hospital only when the disease is relatively advanced or complications have set in.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref> Finally, cases from a wide area (whether congenital or acquired) would tend to congregate, but in a random manner, in a referral center such as ours. All these underscore the fact that hospital and community-based studies both have their different uses, with the former providing useful information in terms of disease pattern while the latter may provide more reliable data for prevalence studies and estimation of disease burden.</p><p>Like Refat <italic>et al</italic>.,[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>] we found more girls with AHD than boys, particularly rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the age range 10--18 years. RHD has been reported by various other authors to be more severe and more likely to occur in females.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">24</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref25">25</xref> In consonance with some other Nigerian authors, we found RHD to be the most frequent AHD in children in our center.[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>] However, a report from Lagos cited effusive pericarditis as the dominant AHD among children and RHD as the second most frequent.[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>] The trend in the present report is also similar to that from other parts of the developing world and is an indication of the persistence of the poor social conditions that favor transmission of the group A β haemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis that leads to rheumatic fever (RF) and RHD.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">24</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref25">25</xref> By contrast, Kawasaki disease (KD) is now the most frequent AHD affecting children in developed countries such as the USA and Japan.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref26">26</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27">27</xref> Our clinical diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in only one child might be indicative either of a true rarity of the condition in our environment or of a very low index of suspicion among physicians and other health workers. Our patient presented to specialist attention at a very early stage of the disease and was treated vigorously with aspirin which resulted in rapid and complete resolution of all signs and symptoms. The clinical cardiovascular and echocardiography findings in this child were normal throughout the acute phase of the illness and for several months thereafter. Coronary aneurysms, the major ECHO feature of Kawasaki disease, are seen only in the later stages and are usually asymptomatic. Thus children diagnosed with Kawasaki disease must be consistently followed up for several months and screened thoroughly for coronary aneurysms because of the risk of sudden death from coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref26">26</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27">27</xref> Kawasaki disease however has its highest incidence in people of Asian ancestry.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref26">26</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref27">27</xref></p><p>Majority (95%) of our patients with RHD had mitral valve (MV) involvement either in isolation or in combination with other valve pathology. Similar patterns have been reported from other parts of the country.[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref28">28</xref>] The reason for this predominance is not completely clearly but has been attributed by some researchers to the dominance of the left heart.[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>] The aortic valve was involved in only 3.6% of our patients, all of whom were aged 6 years and above. In contrast, Jaiyesimi<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref> in the early 1980s reported about double that figure (7.0%) from Ibadan, including a 4.5-year-old boy with aortic stenosis (AS). Isolated AS has been shown to be rare in RHD. Roberts<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref29">29</xref> in a necropsy study of 400 patients aged 14 years and above and having functionally severe valvular heart disease demonstrated that AS is usually of nonrheumatic origin. None of his 105 patients with AS demonstrated the Aschoff bodies typically seen in RHD. Our finding of isolated severe tricuspid stenosis (TS) in one of our patients is unusual. In addition to the thickened and severely restricted valve leaflets, there was a previous history of acute rheumatic fever in this patient, which increased the possibility of RHD as opposed to a congenital cause. It is however possible that valve pathology patterns could have geographical or racial differences. This might be a subject for further research.</p><p>DCM was the second most frequent acquired heart disease (AHD) we encountered – similar to the report from Kano by Asani <italic>et al</italic>.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref> but different from an earlier Ibadan report<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref> where it was the least common AHD and a more recent report from Lagos<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref> where it ranked third in frequency. These differences may reflect a geographic variation in the incidence of DCM within the country. Although the researchers in Lagos classified cases of myocarditis and DCM separately in their series, it is not clear whether they relied solely on ECHO to do this or also on clinical or other features. Both conditions have similar structural and functional features at ECHO and it is widely acknowledged that many of the cases of DCM in children are secondary to myocarditis.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref> In most instances, especially in developing countries where there are limited diagnostic facilities, the precise cause of DCM may be difficult to elicit, but studies in developed countries suggest that majority of the cases are usually of viral aeitology.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref> Eight of our patients with DCM had preceding symptoms of acute upper respiratory tract infection prior to the onset of congestive heart failure (CCF), suggesting the possibility of viral myocarditis.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref> The significant family history in one of our patients and recent literature suggest that HIV infection is an increasingly significant etiologic factor that should be considered in African children with DCM.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref30">30</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref31">31</xref> DCM is also known to have familial or genetic forms, while recent reports suggest that selenium deficiency is another possible etiologic factor.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref32">32</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref33">33</xref> With our limited diagnostic facilities we were unable to establish any of these diagnoses. However, micronutrient deficiencies are common among children in sub-Saharan Africa.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref34">34</xref> Public health measures aimed at promoting good nutrition in the community in general and children in particular will therefore be helpful in preventing nutritionally derived DCM. The present study also showed that DCM was more common in younger children, while RHD occurred more frequently in school-aged children and adolescents, a trend that is similar to reports from other parts of Nigeria and Africa.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref> These however were the ages at the time of ECHO diagnosis and not at the onset of illness.</p><p>Cor pulmonale was present in 15 (8.7%) of our patients with AHD. Much fewer cases have been reported from other parts of Nigeria.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref> This calls for further investigation, as it is possible that with the high altitude in our locality, the effects of relative hypoxia such as vasoconstriction may lead to an increase in pressure in the pulmonary vascular bed.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref35">35</xref> The fact that we found no apparent cause in many of our subjects may support this theory. The few etiologic or associated factors found were poorly treated bacterial pneumonia, tuberculosis, and sickle cell anemia, all of which are recognized causes of cor pulmonale.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref36">36</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref37">37</xref> Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is increasingly recognized as another important cause of cor pulmonale in children, either in isolation or in combination with tuberculosis.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref30">30</xref> Two of our patients diagnosed with cor pulmonale secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis also had HIV infection. However, during the period under review, we did not routinely screen all our echocardiography or cardiac patients for HIV and so may have missed some other cases.</p><p>We saw relatively fewer children with pericardial disease (15 cases or 8.6% of all children with AHD) compared with Lagos where it was the most frequent AHD and Ibadan where it was the second most frequent.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref38">38</xref> On the other hand, Asani <italic>et al</italic>.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref> in Kano reported no cases of pericardial disease at all. These apparent differences may be random or related to geographical variations within the country. Tuberculosis was a predisposing illness in two of our children with pericardial disease. Two of the other cases had associated fever and echocardiographic features of an organizing effusion which would suggest a purulent bacterial aeitology. Although there were no bacterial growths on culture, antibiotic treatment resulted in remarkable improvement, supporting a bacterial infective process and in keeping with the other Nigerian literature.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref> HIV infection, which we did not routinely screen for, is also an increasingly recognized cause of pericardial disease in African children.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref30">30</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref31">31</xref></p><p>We found only one child with EMF, as did Okoromah <italic>et al</italic>.,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref> while Asani <italic>et al</italic>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref> reported no such case. By contrast, Antia<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref> had in 1972 reported 15 cases from Ibadan, while Jaiyesimi[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>] in 1982 reported 52 cases from the same institution. The rarity of EMF in this and the other recent reports, may lend credence to the observations of other recent researchers that EMF may be a disappearing disease in Nigeria.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref39">39</xref> Reasons adduced for this apparent change include general improvements in nutrition and socioeconomic conditions. Deficiencies of the amino acids leucine, valine, and tryptophan had earlier been implicated in the aeitology of EMF in adults in East Africa.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref40">40</xref> Also, basic sanitation has improved, while better education including health education may have effected some behavioral changes that might have led to a reduction in the incidence of parasitic infections suggested in the past to be associated with EMF.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref41">41</xref></p><p>The relative rarity of endocarditis in our study is not surprising as very few cases have been reported from other parts of the country.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref42">42</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref43">43</xref> This may be the result of a low index of suspicion coupled with the fact that vegetations are usually seen on echocardiography only in advanced cases. The overall incidence in Nigeria and other developing countries is not known. As with our study the reports from Ibadan and Zaria documented endocarditis mainly in children with underlying heart disease.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref41">41</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref42">42</xref></p><p>The other AHD we encountered, namely aortic aneurysm, ARVD and NDCM are all said to be rare in children.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref44">44</xref> Apart from reports of left ventricular aneurysms from Ibadan,[<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref45">45</xref>] reports from other parts of Nigeria have not included any of these heart lesions, a reflection perhaps of their rarity.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref></p></sec><sec sec-type="conclusion" id="sec1-5"><title>CONCLUSION</title><p>RHD is still the most common AHD among children in our center, particularly among older children, while DCM is most common among younger children. There is urgent need for an improvement in living conditions and also a well-planned primary prevention program aimed at prompt and appropriate treatment of streptococcal sore throat alongside secondary prevention of RHD.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref25">25</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref46">46</xref> These will reduce the incidence of rheumatic fever and its cardiac sequel RHD, as well as arrest disease progression, thus reducing the number of children and young adults requiring expensive heart valve surgeries (which are virtually unavailable in the country) or dying prematurely from chronic heart failure.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref47">47</xref> There is also a need for more vigorous implementation of the National Tuberculosis Control Programme as this will help to reduce the incidence of its cardiovascular complications such as cor pulmonale and tuberculous pericarditis. Vigorous pursuit of the millennium development goals and a general improvement of child health in the developing world will also have an impact on the incidence of acquired heart diseases in children as the majority of these are of infectious aeitology.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref48">48</xref> We also recommend multicenter collaborative studies and community surveys of heart disease prevalence with a view to ascertaining the true burden, spectrum and epidemiology of heart diseases in Nigerian children and to more accurately assess regional differences and changes in trend.</p></sec></body><back><ack><title>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</title><p>Part of this work was presented at the 37<sup>th</sup> Annual General and Scientific Conference of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria, held in Jos, Nigeria, in January 2006.</p><p>All three authors have fulfilled the criteria for authorship, have read and approved the final manuscript and believe that all the data presented therein are true and represent their honest work.</p></ack><fn-group><fn fn-type="supported-by"><p><bold>Source of Support:</bold> Nil</p></fn><fn fn-type="conflict"><p><bold>Conflict of Interest:</bold> None declared.</p></fn></fn-group><ref-list><title>REFERENCES</title><ref id="ref1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Sliwa</surname><given-names>K</given-names></name><name><surname>Mocumbi</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Forgotten cardiovascular diseases in Africa</article-title><source>Clin Res Cardiol</source><year>2010</year><volume>99</volume><fpage>65</fpage><lpage>74</lpage><pub-id pub-id-type="pmid">20012067</pub-id></element-citation></ref><ref id="ref2"><label>2</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group person-group-type="author"><name><surname>Mocumbi</surname><given-names>AO</given-names></name></person-group><article-title>Neglected cardiovascular disease in Africa. 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