Congenital heart defects--the risks to offspring.
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Risks to the offspring of patients with some common congenital heart defects.
The families of 424 adult index patients with ventricular septal defect, right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, or combinations of these two abnormalities, were visited and interviewed, and whenever possible the children of index patients were examined clinically. Congenital heart defects were present in 9 of 308 children, 8 of 899 sibs, 4 of 840 parents, and 4 of 731 nephews and nieces o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.58.12.947