منابع مشابه
Heart Malformation
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common human birth defect worldwide,1 taking a tremendous toll on affected families, caregivers, and healthcare systems. Approximately 40 000 children are born each year in the United States with a heart malformation, and at least another 40 000 are born annually with subclinical malformations that result in heart disease later in adulthood. Significan...
متن کاملSome possible causes of congenital heart malformation.
Certain conditions found in human congenital heart disease are probably genetic in origin (Cockayne, 1938; Polani and Campbell, 1955), but sometimes they may be correlated with an environmental factor, namely the infection of the mother with rubella during early pregnancy. Thus there appears to be no single cause of congenital heart abnormality; sometimes genetic causes and sometimes environmen...
متن کاملScreening for congenital heart malformation in child health centres.
BACKGROUND Although screening for congenital heart malformations is part of the child health care programme in several countries, there are very few published evaluations of these activities. This report is concerned with the evaluation of this screening at the Dutch Child Health Centres (CHC). METHODS All consecutive patients, aged between 32 days and 4 years, presented at the Sophia Childre...
متن کاملThe familial incidence of congenital malformation of the heart.
It is generally believed that the incidence of congenital malformation of the heart is raised in relatives of affected individuals. The evidence in support of this view consists mainly of isolated records of families with more than one affected member (Courter et al., 1948, refer to 63 reported cases), but a few examples have been noted in the course of investigations of large series of patient...
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Pediatric glans penis malformations, especially arteriovenous malformations (AVM), are very rare. Herein, we report two rare cases. A 14-year-old boy attended our outpatient clinic with chief complaints of purple swelling and rapidly growing lesion on the glans penis. The lesion was excised surgically after physical and radiological evaluations. Pathology reported AVM and the patient is being f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.878637