THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
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DOI:
10.1136/adc.24.120.294
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发表时间:
1949-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
REYNOLDS, G
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作者:
CAMPBELL, M;REYNOLDS, G
Benn (1947) has analysed statisticaly the height and weight of school children with patent ductus arteriosus. He found both boys and girls were under weight, the differences for the boys being probably, and for the girls certainly, of statistical signif. The increased height of the girls also seemed to be of statistical sigif. In auricular septal defect, under-development and small build were emphaized by Roesler (1934) but were not found by Bedford, Papp, and Parkinson (1941) in adults.This under-development is not true of all forms of congenital heart disease. The good physique of many cases of coarctation of the aorta has been referred to by several recent writers (Perlman, 1944; Bramwell, 1947; and Newman, 1948, for example). We are unaware of any series of measurements and weights, though there can be no doubt about the good physique and sometimes athletic prowess of many patients with coarctation. Following the visit of Blalock to Guy's Hospital in September, 1947, and his demonstrations of the surgical treatment of Fallot's tetralogy, and the successful continuation of this work by Brock (Baker, Brock, Campbell, and Suzman, 1949), large numbers of patients with congenital heart disease have been examined to select those suitable for operation. Enough of these have now been seen to aIlow conclusions to be drawnregarding some aspects of physical development in this condition. Diffiulties in making a clinical diagnosis of the exact lesion mean that conclusions about differences between individual types of lesion are on a less sure foundation than those between congenital heart lesions asa whole and the normal.