Pediatr Cardiol 2020 Feb 01
Long-Term Follow-Up of Transthoracic Echocardiography-Guided Transcatheter Closure of Large Atrial Septal Defects (=?30 mm) Using the SHSMA Occluder.
Dou H, Kan T, Guo X, Wang L, Na J, Li P, Xu X, Qin Y, Zhao X
Transcatheter closure of large atrial septal defects (ASDs) remains controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of ...
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Clin. Endocrinol. (Oxf) 2020 Jan 31
A Value-based Healthcare approach: Health Related Quality of Life and Psychosocial Functioning in Women with Turner Syndrome.
van den Hoven AT, Bons LR, R H M, Dykgraaf, Dessens AB, Pastoor H, de Graaff LCG, Metselaar RM, Kneppers-Swets A, Kardys I, Mijnarends H, Zweerus F, Hazelzet JA, M W J Utens E, van den Bosch AE, Roos-Hesselink JW
As part of the value-based health care program in our hospital a set of patient reported outcome measures was developed together with patients and imp ...
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Clin. Genet. 2020 Jan 31
Identification of FOXH1 mutations in patients with sporadic conotruncal heart defect.
Wei W, Li B, Li F, Sun K, Jiang X, Xu R
Conotruncal heart defects (CTD) are an important subtype of congenital heart disease that occur due to abnormality in the development of the cardiac o ...
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EMBO Mol Med 2020 Jan 31
Inhibiting MARSs reduces hyperhomocysteinemia-associated neural tube and congenital heart defects.
Mei X, Qi D, Zhang T, Zhao Y, Jin L, Hou J, Wang J, Lin Y, Xue Y, Zhu P, Liu Z, Huang L, Nie J, Si W, Ma J, Ye J, Finnell RH, Saiyin H, Wang H, Zhao J, Zhao S, Xu W
Hyperhomocysteinemia is a common metabolic disorder that imposes major adverse health consequences. Reducing homocysteine levels, however, is not alwa ...
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Medicine (Baltimore)
Chromosomal microarray analysis for the detection of chromosome abnormalities in fetuses with echogenic intracardiac focus in women without high-risk factors.
He M, Zhang Z, Hu T, Liu S
To investigate the association between pathogenic copy number variants (p-CNVs) and abnormal karyotypes detected by chromosomal microarray analysis (C ...
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