[PDF] Top 20 Failure to Diagnose Congenital Heart Disease in Infancy

... 1981 through 1989, a population-based study of con- genital heart disease in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and northern Virginia enrolled 4390 cases of CCVMs. This study offers a unique opportunity to ... See full document

... This paper reports values for blood gas tensions and acid-base equilibrium in infants in con- gestive heart failure and will serve as an initial exploration of cardiac and respiratory fu[r] ... See full document

... Left Heart Syndrome or Transposition of the Great Arteries whose mothers lived within the British county of Leicestershire, which has an annual birth rate of ap- proximately 11,000 per ... See full document

... hemolysis in hypotonic saline (Fig. 30).6 Diminished plasma iron and elevated plasma copper levels have been shown to be a characteristic of iron deficiency anemia in infancy. Siderocyte[r] ... See full document

... intercurrent disease. These infections may complicate management of heart failure or of cyanogenic heart diseases and/or induce or worsen pul- monary hypertension, ultimately making it ... See full document

... of heart failure in patients with CHD and controls according to a hierarchical ...other heart and circulatory system anomalies and all other CHD diagnoses that were not included in the other five ... See full document

... of congenital heart disease, disturbance in energy metabolism, decreased energy intake, disturbance in gastrointestinal function and the presence of chromosomal disorders such as trisomy ...acyanotic ... See full document

... It should be noted that indication of surgery in the current study were because of the complications of their disease. Most of the patients had either left to right shunt and/or pulmonary hypertension. Majority of ... See full document

... EC has resulted in more cases of ASD being diagnosed, with a high rate of spontaneous closure. Mild and asymptomatic defects can be considered to be variations o f the norm. Unfortunately, a high pick-up rate o f these ... See full document

... of congenital and acquired heart diseases are shown in Table ...both congenital and acquired heart dis- ...acquired heart disease showed stronger association between the modified ... See full document

... with congenital heart disease is characterized by abnormalities of tone, feeding difficulties, delays in major motor milestones and abnormalities in ...academic failure, poor classroom and ... See full document

... These data suggest that infants with congenital cardiac defects complicated by malnutrition manifest increased nutrient require- ments for growth and weight gain.. Continuous, 24-hour, n[r] ... See full document

... Values in the cardiac patients are near control levels at birth but become subnormal in the age group 2 to 24 months. In contrast, most older cardiac patients have an increased mass of c[r] ... See full document

... suits in hypertension in the pulmonary cir- culation, whereas in other cases where pul- monary hypertension is associated with a severe cardiac lesion, the hypertension is thought to cau[r] ... See full document

... hypertensive heart disease [14], heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy includ- ing peripartum heart disease[15], and valvular heart dis- ...renal failure, ... See full document

... increase was noted in insulin-dependent diabetic and nondiabetic subjects with severe end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis (P less than 0.001). Moderately elevated levels were also noted in some very old ... See full document

... of Disease and Related Health Problems, 10th revision ...can diagnose major depression, dysthymia, panic disorder, social phobia, agoraphobia, general anxiety disorder (GAD), and other coexistent disorders ... See full document

... This was sug- geste(l in l review of cardiac clinic records of 220 l)atiemlts all(l was supported by the results of pun- carpine sweat t(stS inch were performed on 34 cardiac patients. B[r] ... See full document

... Further, data from the Framingham Heart Study support and also characterize the association between fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. First, increased fibrinogen may be a pathway by which the ... See full document

... in disease patterns from communicable to noncommunicable diseases, a growing trend of urbanization and an attraction for following a Western lifestyle could influence such increased CVD ... See full document