BMC Public Health
July 2024
Int J Cardiol
October 2024
Background: Pediatric heart disease is becoming a major contributor to childhood mortality. Almost half of congenital heart defects require intervention, either surgical or trans-catheter. Rheumatic heart disease also remains a global health problem in Low-and-middle-income-countries (LMICs).
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March 2024
Background: Transthoracic Echocardiography is the first-line, non-invasive, and accessible imaging modality to evaluate heart disease anatomy, physiology, and hemodynamics. We aim to describe the trans-thoracic echocardiography pattern of pediatric heart diseases and reasons for referral in children referred to Bahir Dar University Tibebe-Ghion Hospital and Adinas General Hospital.
Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study of the archived Transthoracic, Two Dimensional, and Doppler Echocardiography assessments of children from birth to fifteen years of age performed between June 2019 to May 2023 was done.
Background And Aims: Neonatal period is the most vulnerable time in which children face the greatest risk of death. Worldwide, each year, millions of newborns died in the first month of life. Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, in particular, is largely affected.
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