Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease: Trends in pregnancy termination rate, and perinatal and 1-year infant mortalities in Korea between 1994 and 2005

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 474-478

  Lee, Ji Eun ^a   Jung, Kyung Lan ^a   Kim, Sei Eun ^a   Nam, Soo Hyun ^a   Choi, Suk Joo ^a   Oh, Soo Young ^a   Roh, Cheong Rae ^a   Kim, Jong Hwa ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defect; Echocardiography; Perinatal mortality; Pregnancy outcome; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DELIVERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TELEPHONE; TREND STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INDUCED ABORTION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; KOREA; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77953333178     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2010.01222.x     Document Type: Article

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