How effectively can clinical examination pick up congenital heart disease at birth?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Onuzo, O C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; BIRTH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYANOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS DEATH; GESTATION PERIOD; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LUNG ATRESIA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745828294     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.094789     Document Type: Review

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