Table 3

Cases of CCHD by programme and by pregnancy outcome and clinical presentation, International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR) Critical Congenital Heart Defects (CCHD) Prenatal Diagnosis study 2000–2014*

Programme – regionTotal casesPregnancy outcome (%)Clinical presentation (%)
LBSBTOPFAUnknownIsolatedMCASyndromic
UK-Wales1 00381.22.516.4071.615.513.0
Germany-Saxony Anhalt39284.72.013.3074.714.011.2
Netherlands-Northern47782.44.213.4074.811.913.2
France-Rhone Alps82061.73.235.1070.017.612.4
Italy-Emilia Romagna79579.50.120.4081.39.49.3
Italy-Lombardy5583.63.612.7085.57.37.3
Italy-Tuscany45177.22.220.6090.54.74.9
Malta11197.32.7na079.39.011.7
Czech Republic4 56968.40.823.67.389.65.84.6
Slovak Republic68798.10.41.20.383.610.95.5
Canada6 15795.21.73.1079.211.69.1
USA-Arkansas72297.42.10.40.167.620.212.2
USA-Atlanta79692.82.93.40.967.513.718.8
Argentina60998.41.5na0.275.518.46.1
India-Chennai†5996.80.735.257.382.815.41.8
  • *ICBDSR programmes contributed data for different years within this time period (see table 1).

  • †India-Chennai is a prenatal programme, and only includes congenital heart defects that are prenatally diagnosed

  • CCHD, critical congenital heart defects; LB, live births; MCA, multiple congenital anomalies; na, not available; SB, stillbirths; TOPFA, termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly.