Aims: To make comparative analysis of the indications and outcome of paediatric echocardiography in tertiary centers in Rivers State, Nigeria using the Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) guidelines [11]. Methodology: A retrospective analysis of 645 echocardiography requests done b...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2021/v42i230439
Aims: This was to determine the demographic and echocardiographic characteristics of AVCD patients and analyse the types of defect associated with the presence or absence of obvious phenotypic syndromes in children in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Methodology: It is a prospe...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i330142
Background: Electrocardiography (ECG) is an inexpensive, quick, non-invasive, widely available and reliable screening tool in the assessment of the electrical activity of the heart, and is vital in the detection of potentially lethal sub-clinical structural or electrophysiologica...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/38432
Introduction: High blood pressure is often considered a disease of old age; but the precursors are sometimes present in young children long before clinical manifestation of hypertension in adulthood. Essential hypertension is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, heart disease...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/38338
Background: Sickle cell anaemia is a chronic anaemia that is characterized by episodes of severe bone pain from blood vessels occlusion by sickled red blood cells when deoxygenated, and eventual end organ affectation and multi-organ failure. The aim of this study was to compare t...
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