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Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries
About 1.35 million babies are born with congenital heart disease each year globally. Most of these are expected to lead normal, productive lives if they are treated in time. However, 90% of babies born with congenital heart disease live in regions where medical care is inadequate or unavailable. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30823591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6020034 |
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description | About 1.35 million babies are born with congenital heart disease each year globally. Most of these are expected to lead normal, productive lives if they are treated in time. However, 90% of babies born with congenital heart disease live in regions where medical care is inadequate or unavailable. The privilege of early diagnosis and timely intervention is restricted to only those born in developed countries. Added to the burden of congenital heart disease is rheumatic heart disease, which remains a global health problem in many low-income and middle-income countries. Providing optimal care for all these children is a daunting task, and requires funds and proper planning at various levels of the health care system. This article describes the burden of pediatric heart disease, including lacunae in the current state, as well as challenges and opportunities for providing optimal care to this large population of children. |
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spelling | pubmed-64066352019-03-13 Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries Saxena, Anita Children (Basel) Review About 1.35 million babies are born with congenital heart disease each year globally. Most of these are expected to lead normal, productive lives if they are treated in time. However, 90% of babies born with congenital heart disease live in regions where medical care is inadequate or unavailable. The privilege of early diagnosis and timely intervention is restricted to only those born in developed countries. Added to the burden of congenital heart disease is rheumatic heart disease, which remains a global health problem in many low-income and middle-income countries. Providing optimal care for all these children is a daunting task, and requires funds and proper planning at various levels of the health care system. This article describes the burden of pediatric heart disease, including lacunae in the current state, as well as challenges and opportunities for providing optimal care to this large population of children. MDPI 2019-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6406635/ /pubmed/30823591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6020034 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Saxena, Anita Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title | Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title_full | Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title_fullStr | Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title_short | Status of Pediatric Cardiac Care in Developing Countries |
title_sort | status of pediatric cardiac care in developing countries |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30823591 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6020034 |
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