Evaluating the diagnostic gap: Statewide incidence of undiagnosed critical congenital heart disease before newborn screening with pulse oximetry

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1680-1686

  Mouledoux, Jessica H ^a   Walsh, William F ^a  

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarctation of the aorta; Congenital heart disease; Newborn screening; Pulse oximetry

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; UNITED STATES;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; OXIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885371253     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-013-0697-1     Document Type: Article

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