Genetic and Environmental Risk of Major Cardiovascular Malformations: The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, 1981-89: Vol 5 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0879936754 ISBN 13: 9780879936754

Casa editrice: Futura Publishing Co Inc.,U.S., 1997

Riassunto

Cardiovascular malformations constitute a major segment of birth defects with profound medical, psychosocial, and economic consequences. Previous research has mainly focused on clinical methods of diagnosis and treatment, but the need for prediction, prenatal counseling, and preventive interventions requires further knowledge of familial and environmental risk factors. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive evaluation of major cardiovascular malformations encompassing infant, familial, and environmental factors for the individual subgroups of cardiac lesions. In its detailed presentation of The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, this provocative text provides the first systematic, epidemiologic assessment of 18 precisely defined cardiovascular malformations, taking into account other associated congenital anomalies. It includes an overview of the study's design and methodology; confirmation of major diagnostic groups by imaging or post-mortem studies; a classification of syndromes and multiple malformations based on updated knowledge of genetics and dysmorphology; and a statistical profile of more than 200 family history variables. By elucidating the factors that may contribute to the occurrence of 18 specific cardiovascular malformations and the similarities and differences of such factors for the diagnostic groups evaluated, this book begins to unravel some

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"The epidemiology research is sound and particular defects are addressed defect by defect. There is no doubt that there is a lot of information here that would be useful to the paedatric cardiologist."

Journal of Paediatric and Child Health

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Futura Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0879936754
• ISBN 13: 9780879936754
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 463
• Redattore: Ferencz Charlotte, Loffredo Prof Christopher, Correa-Villasenor Adolfo, Wilson David
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile