ENERGY EXPENDITURES OF INFANTS WITH VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECTS

患有先天性心脏病的婴儿经常无法 茁壮成长有几个因素被认为有助于增长 这些婴儿的发育迟缓，包括静息代谢率增加， 体力活动中的能量消耗增加， 营养摄入本研究的目的是比较 3-4个月大的婴儿的每日能量消耗 室间隔缺损组与对照组比较 以确定每日总能量消耗是否增加， 在患有先天性心脏病的婴儿中， 分流。 右心压力，左向右分流量， 测量室间隔缺损的大小， 评估这些因素与下列变量之间的任何可能关联： 能源需求或失败的严重性，以茁壮成长，可能会发生在 患有心脏病的婴儿。

Infants with congenital heart disease frequently experience failure to thrive. Several factors are thought to contribute to the growth retardation of these infants, including increased resting metabolic rate, increased energy expenditure in physical activity, and decreased nutritional intake. The purpose of this study is to compare the total daily energy expenditure of 3-4 month old infants with moderate to large ventricular septal defects with those of healthy control infants in order to determine if there is an increase in the total daily energy expenditure in infants with congenital heart disease with significant left-to-right shunting. The right heart pressures, quantity of the left-to-right shunt, and size of the ventricular septal defect will be measured in order to assess any possible association between these factors and variations in energy requirements or severity of failure to thrive that may occur in the group of infants with heart disease.