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Analysis of Congenital Heart Defects in Mouse Embryos Using Qualitative and Quantitative Histological Methods
Published on: March 10, 2020
Approach to diagnosing congenital cardiac disorders
Georgios A Hartas1, Emmanouil Tsounias, Monesha Gupta-Malhotra
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Abstract:
The subspecialty of pediatric cardiology has rapidly progressed in the past few years with more children with heart defects surviving to adulthood. With newer diagnostic tools and improved surgical techniques, many heart defects are being approached with surgery. Although the more complicated lesions are never "completely repaired" and may require heart transplant in the long-term, there is an approach to "palliation." Most of the congenital heart malformations are detected in the perinatal period and this article gives the reader a general picture of the diagnostic approach to a multitude of heart defects.
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