Congenital cardiovascular lesions in children with trisomy 21 at the Bustamante Hospital for Children

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-331

  Tomlinson, Tamra W ^a   Scott, Charmaine H ^a   Trotman, Helen L M ^b  

^a Bustamante Hospital for Children   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Cardiac lesions; Downs Syndrome; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; BUSTAMANTE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISOMY 21; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL; JAMAICA; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 77953609343     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951110000417     Document Type: Article

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