Características generales de la atención a recién nacidos con malformaciones congénitas en un hospital infantil

a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study of 218 neonates that presented congenital malformations in any apparatus or system, assisted in the open service of neonatology of "dr. juan de la cruz martínez maceira" northern children hospital was carried out, from january , 2001 to december, 2007, in order to characterize them according to variables of interest for the investigation. the male sex and the full- term newborns with normal weight prevailed in the series. the most frequent malformations were the isolated ones and among them the digestive and cardiovascular ones. the prenatal diagnosis was of low effectiveness and mortality was low, generally caused by multiple congenital malformations.