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Multicenter Study
. 1996 Dec;147(12):627-33.

[Prevalence of congenital cardiopathies among newborn infants in a department of pediatric cardiology]

[Article in Italian]
L Mundo  1 , S L Torchia, A De Cicco, F Ventriglia, L Sebastiani Annicchiarico, V Colloridi
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  • PMID: 9296922
Multicenter Study

[Prevalence of congenital cardiopathies among newborn infants in a department of pediatric cardiology]

[Article in Italian]
L Mundo et al. Clin Ter. 1996 Dec.

Abstract

This study consists of a prevalence congenital heart disease (CHD) registered in the Pediatric Cardiology Department of Umberto I General Hospital in Rome between January 1st 1992 and December 31-th 1993. Cases recorded in this period have been taken part of a larger study called Italian Multicentric Study for recording and follow-up of congenital heart disease (IMS-CHD); the purpose is to determine the prevalence of CHD in Italy and discover the outcome of affected children. In this duration, 187 new cases have been recorded, in which 63.6% had a single defect while 36.4% had multiple defects. These isolated defects were most frequently occurred (51.9%) following the stenosis of the pulmonary artery (15.5% and the defects of the interatrial septum (15%).

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