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[Chromosome 22 (22q.11.2) deletion. Etiology of conotruncal heart abnormalities].
Archivos del Instituto de Cardiologia de Mexico - 1 Jan 2000
Buendía Hernández A, Calderón-Colmenero J, Aizpuru E, Attie C L, Zabal C, Patiño E, Miranda I, Juanico A, Attie F
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Important advances in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease (CHD) have been made in the past 50 years. Nowadays echocardiogram plays an important role in the diagnosis. This procedure is able to identify a wide range of malformations. Cardiac catheterization is mainly a therapeutic tool, surgery is now performed much earlier because CHDS are diagnosed sometimes before birth or very early in...
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