Ruikun Zou1, Yifei Wang1,*, Chengcheng Pang2, Yunxia Sun1, Chen Chen1, Jian Zhuang3
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.2, pp. 159-170, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.015050
- 26 January 2021
Abstract Aim: To determine the profiles of clinical features including four-limb blood pressure (BP), saturations of peripheral oxygen (SpO2), and echocardiographic features in infants with coarctation of aorta (CoA) to facilitate congenital heart diseases screening. Methods: The charts of infants with CoA were retrospectively reviewed. All in-hospital infants suspected of congenital heart diseases by clinical teams were prospectively measured of four limbs BPs and SpO2 in a regional cardiac transferring center during 2013 and 2019. Echocardiography as a gold standard test was followed within 2 days after suspicion. All infants were divided into non-significant CoA group or significant… More >