Task Force 1: the changing profile of congenital heart disease in adult life
Carole A. Warnes, MD, FACC, Co-Chair,
Richard Liberthson, MD, Co-Chair,
Gordon K. Danielson, Jr, MD, FACC,
Annie Dore, MD, FRCP,
Louise Harris, MD, ChB, FACC,
Julien I. E. Hoffman, MD, FACC,
Jane Somerville, MD, FACC,
Roberta G. Williams, MD, FACC and
Gary D. Webb, MD, FACC
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Figure 1 Age range of patients with CHD at hospital admission in a single center from 1975 onwards. The unit was opened as an adolescent unit in 1975 at the National Heart Hospital, joined by the Royal Brompton Hospital in 1990. Statistics from Jane Somerville, London, U.K.
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Figure 2 Outpatient attendance for 1997, according to age >16 years, basic diagnosis, and age. AR = aortic regurgitation; AS = aortic stenosis; ASD = atrial septal defect; PV = pulmonary valve; TGA = transposition of the great arteries; VSD = ventricular septal defect. Statistics from Jane Somerville, London, U.K.
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Figure 3 Outpatient attendance for 1997, according to age >16 years, basic diagnosis, and age. AR = aortic regurgitation; ASD = atrial septal defect; A-V = atrioventricular; DORV = double-outlet right ventricle; MV = mitral valve; SUB AS = subaortic stenosis; VSD = ventricular septal defect. Statistics from Jane Somerville, London, U.K.
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Figure 4 Age range of patients with CHD in two tertiary care centers.
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