What is it about?
Children are affected by heart disease which can be congenital or acquired after birth. Congenital heart diseases are more common than acquired heart diseases according to our study. The commonest congenital heart diseases are those demonstrating a shunt ir defect between the two ventricles.
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Why is it important?
This study gives a clue on the type of childhood heart disease in developing countries
Perspectives
This study highlights the burden of heart disease in developing countries in a way that congenital heart disease is also the commonest childhood heart disease like that of developed countries.
Dr. Tesfaye Taye Gelaw
Bahir Dar University
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This page is a summary of: Two–Dimensional and Doppler trans-thoracic echocardiographic patterns of suspected pediatric heart diseases at Tibebe-—Ghion specialized Teaching Hospital and Adinas General Hospital, Bahir Dar, North-west Ethiopia:–An experience from an LMIC, PLOS One, March 2024, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292694.
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