Indian guidelines for indications and timing of intervention for common congenital heart diseases: Revised and updated consensus statement of the Working group on management of congenital heart diseases

Anita Saxena, Jay Relan, Ravi Agarwal, Neeraj Awasthy, Sushil Azad, Manisha Chakrabarty, Kulbhushan S Dagar, Velayoudam Devagourou, Baiju S Dharan, Saurabh K Gupta, Krishna S Iyer, M Jayranganath, Raja Joshi, BR J Kannan, Ashish Katewa, Vikas Kohli, Shyam S Kothari, KM Krishnamoorthy, Snehal Kulkarni, R Manoj Kumar, R Krishna Kumar, Sunita Maheshwari, Krishna Manohar, Ashutosh Marwah, Smita Mishra, Smruti R Mohanty, K Samba Murthy, K Nageswara Rao, PV Suresh, S Radhakrishnan, Palleti Rajashekar, S Ramakrishnan, Nitin Rao, Suresh G Rao, HM Chinnaswamy Reddy, Rajesh Sharma, Krishnanaik Shivaprakash, Raghavan Subramanyan, R Suresh Kumar, Sachin Talwar, Munesh Tomar, Sudeep Verma, R VijaykumarAnnals of Pediatric Cardiology 2019 12(3):254-286 A number of guidelines are available for the management of congenital heart diseases (CHD) from infancy to adult life. However, these guidelines are for patients living in high-income countries. Separate guidelines, applicable to Indian children, are required when recommending an intervention for CHD, as often these patients present late in the course of the disease and may have coexisting morbidities and malnutrition. Guidelines emerged following expert deliberations at the National Consensus Meeting on Management of Congenital Heart Diseases in India, held on August 10 and 11, 2018, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The meeting was supported by Children's HeartLink, a nongovernmental organization based in Minnesota...
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