Congenital heart disease in 37,294 births in Tunisia: Birth prevalence and mortality rate

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 866-871

  Abid, Dorra ^a   Elloumi, Anis ^a   Abid, Leila ^a   Mallek, Souad ^a   Aloulou, Hajer ^a   Chabchoub, Imen ^a   Bouraoui, Amira ^a   Thabet, Afef ^a   Gargouri, Lamia ^a   Zribi, Malek ^b   Yaich, Sourour ^a   Hachicha, Mongia ^a   Gargouri, Abdellatif ^a   Mahfoudh, Abdelmajid ^a   Maatoug, Samir ^b   Dammak, Jamel ^a   Kammoun, Samir ^a  

^a HEDI CHAKER HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Developing countries; Epidemiology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY; TUNISIA; BIRTH RATE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NEWBORN; REGISTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

BIRTH RATE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TUNISIA;

EID: 84904551847     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951113001194     Document Type: Article

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