Letter by Winter et al regarding article, "Children and adults with congenital heart disease lost to follow-up: who and when?".
Letter by Winter et al regarding article, "Children and adults with congenital heart disease lost to follow-up: who and when?".
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Winter 等人关于文章“患有先天性心脏病的儿童和成人失访：谁以及何时？”的信函。
作者：
M. Winter;B. Mulder;E. T. van der Velde
致编辑：
To the Editor:
In their recent article, Mackie et al1 demonstrated that 61% of adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) in Quebec, Canada, fail to receive cardiac follow-up. In the Netherlands, we found that only one third (≈8000) of adult patients with CHD fail to receive cardiac follow-up. Therefore, caution with extrapolating these data to other nations is recommended.
On average, 200 000 children are born in the Netherlands each year. With a birth prevalence of around 8 per 1000 live births2 and an overall survival rate until adulthood of 85% since the early 1970s, there are an estimated 25 …