Saturday 20 December 2014

Children Born With Heart Defect: a Major Cause of Infant Mortality

In India, one in every 120 children are born with a heart defect and about a third of them have serious defects. Congenital heart defects or birth defects of hearts have emerged a major cause of infant mortality, with other causes like diarrhea and pneumonia having been contained. With advances in ultrasound technology, it is now feasible to diagnose defects of heart during early pregnancy. Fetal echocardiography is an advanced ultrasound for evaluation ...

via Medindia Health News More READ

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