Die Prognose der unbehandelien angeborenen Herz- und Gefäßmißbildungen

Ge, Stiefel

doi:10.1159/000165030

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“…Data from general hospitals are also subject to a minor but significant computational artifact in that deaths after the first decade are usually grouped in decades or as all over 10 [55][56][57][58][59][60] and although only one study49 is based on complete population data, similar figures appear in most of the hospital series. From this evidence it seems that deaths from CHD in hospitals have the same age distribution as all deaths from CHD in the population; the exception is the Mayo Clinic se-ries57 with its underrepresentation of the young.…”

Section: Life Expectancy Tablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural History of Congenital Heart Disease

Hoffman

1968

Circulation

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It is difficult to make prognoses and decisions on therapy of individuals with congenital heart disease (CHD) and plan efficiently for medical services and training programs because studies on the incidence and relative frequency of different types of CHD at birth, mortality rates, times of death, and prevalence rates in children and adults are incomplete or unrepresentative. The present study assesses the merits of previous surveys and attempts to indicate the best information about these rates. Specific attention has been directed to data on ventricular septal defect (VSD), with an estimated incidence of at least 20/10,000 live births; about 10% of these children died before 15 years of age. There should thus be about 18/10,000 surviving school children with VSD, yet the most intensive school surveys show only about half this number. This supports the suggestion that there is a high incidence (perhaps 50%) of spontaneous closure of VSD during childhood. Spontaneous closure may also occur frequently after childhood, but this conclusion needs to be confirmed by better surveys.

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Section: Life Expectancy Tablesmentioning

confidence: 99%