SEIZURES AFTER PEDIATRIC CARDIAC SURGERY(REPORT OF THREE CASES) - WHAT CAN WE CONCLUDE?

Abstract

ABSTRACT Seizures are complications that can occur after cardiac surgery of congenital heart disease. Their incidence is overall low. Enthought poorly reported in the literature their notification, early treatment and follow up is essential for further child neurological development. Furthermore, factors that lead to seizures after cardiac surgeries are additionally reported with controversies. While some authors discuss that the diagnosis and the type of surgery are essential for their occurrence other corelate them to prolonged duration of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), x-cross of aorta, prolonged hypothermia or duration of mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit (ICU) stay. In this article, we present series of cases of children who had seizures after cardiac surgery, where we made a comparation of several factors like diagnoses, duration of cardiopulmonary bypass and age, as possible factors for seizure occurrence.