Occurrence risk for congenital heart defects in relatives of patients with aortic stenosis, pulmonary stenosis, or ventricular septal defect. - Concepedia

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Occurrence risk for congenital heart defects in relatives of patients with aortic stenosis, pulmonary stenosis, or ventricular septal defect.

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1993

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David J. Driscoll, Virginia V. Michels, Welton M. Gersony, Constance J. Hayes, John F. Keane, Langford Kidd, Daniel R. Pieroni, Laura Rings, Rachel Wolfe, William H. Weidman

Abstract

Based on known congenital heart defects in offspring of probands in the NHS-2, occurrence rates of congenital heart disease in children of subjects with AS, PS, and VSD were 1.2% (confidence interval [CI], 0.34-3.1%), 2.8% (CI, 1.4-5.1%), and 2.9% (CI, 1.8-4.4%), respectively.