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Article: Congenital heart disease prognosis still a mystery: 'no single hemodynamic or electrophysiologic risk factor appears to be sufficiently predictive.'.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
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- Family Practice News
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- September 1, 2008
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TORONTO -- Experts are looking for the best way to assess the risk for sudden death in adults with congenital heart disease.
Adults with congenital heart disease face a threat from sudden cardiac death that is far higher than that of the general population, with a mortality risk of 0.9 events per 1,000 patients per year in patients who are younger than age 20 years. But as of now, there is no good way to distinguish patients with the highest risk from those congenital heart disease patients who have a substantially lower risk. "No single hemodynamic or electrophysiologic risk factor appears to be sufficiently predictive," Dr. Louise Harris said at the 14th World ...