The incidence of congenital heart defects in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight infants

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-38

  Godfrey, Max ^a   Schimmel, Michael S ^a,b   Hammerman, Cathy ^a,b   Farber, Benjamin ^a,b   Glaser, Joram ^c   Nir, Amiram ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Leumit Research Institue   (Israel)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Prematurity; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POPULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; ISRAEL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 76049115728     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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