Essays about: "Congenital heart disease"
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1. Life Experience of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: A Descriptive Review
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för vårdvetenskapAbstract : Background: The life expectancy of adults with congenital heart disease hassignificantly increased due to the enormous progress of medical technology.Consequently, adults with congenital heart disease constitute a relatively new andgrowing patient population. READ MORE
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2. Transition and transfer in congenital heart disease- Experiences and perspectives of young people with CHD and their parents/caregivers
University essay fromAbstract : Children born today with congenital heart disease (CHD) will most likely live into adulthood and as such need to transition their care from the paediatric cardiac clinic to the adult cardiac clinic. How young people and their parents/caregivers perceive this process of transition is not well understood. READ MORE
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3. Lower limb muscle function in children and adolescents with Fontan circulation : A cross-sectional study
University essay from Umeå universitet/Avdelningen för fysioterapiAbstract : Introduction: Impaired isometric muscle strength and muscle endurance in adults with Fontan circulation has previously been reported. However, the knowledge if corresponding impairment is present in children and adolescents with Fontan circulation is scarce. READ MORE
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4. Fallots tetrad hos hund och människa : embryologi, genetik och diagnostik
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and BiochemistryAbstract : Hos människa är anomalier i hjärtat bland de vanligaste medfödda missbildningarna. Även hos hund är medfödda missbildningar i hjärtat relativt vanliga men prevalensen skiljer sig både mellan renrasiga hundar och korsningar samt mellan olika raser. Fallots tetrad (TOF) är en av missbildningarna som kan ses i hjärtat. READ MORE
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5. Patient-specific blood vessel modeling on data from MR scans of children with congenital heart disease
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematik LTHAbstract : One percent of children have a congenital heart disease, often requiring surgical corrections. The last fifty years have seen a sharp increase in the use of evidence based medicine to identify and treat congenital heart diseases. This has been highly successful but treatments are not customized for individual patients. READ MORE