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Studies from A.O. Mocumbi and Colleagues Provide New Data on Heart Disease

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, July 31st, 2011

2011 JUL 31 -- "While in developed countries prenatal diagnosis is currently used to detect Congenital Heart Disease before (CHD) before birth, in developing countries only a minority of children with CHD is detected and few benefit from surgical treatment. Having created a referral unit for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in a resource-deprived country we designed a study aiming at describing the spectrum and characteristics of CHD and discuss the challenges of its management," scientists in Maputo, Mozambique report.

"Population and methods: We studied retrospectively all patients assisted at a referral unit between 2001 and 2007,...

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