Cardiac abnormalities of Sudanese patients with Down's syndrome and their short-term outcome

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-115

  Ali, Sulafa K M ^a  

^a Department of Paediatric Cardiology   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DOWN SYNDROME; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SUDAN; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MORBIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUDAN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67549119386     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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