Prenatal diagnosis, hospital characteristics, and mortality in transposition of the great arteries

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 739-748

  Lara, Diego A ^a   Fixler, David E ^b   Ethen, Mary K ^c   Canfield, Mark A ^c   Nembhard, Wendy N ^d   Morris, Shaine A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial switch operation; congenital heart disease; hospital volume; mortality; prenatal diagnosis; surgical outcomes; transposition of the great arteries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

EID: 84978435528     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23525     Document Type: Article

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