Congenital heart defects in Down syndrome patients from Western Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1211-1215

  Al Aama, Jumana Y ^a,b   Bondagji, Nabeel S ^a,b   El Harouni, Ashraf A ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Genetic Medicine ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^b King Abdulaziz University   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSAICISM; NEWBORN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; TRISOMY 21;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871908209     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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