Guidelines for the management of common congenital heart diseases in India: A consensus statement on indications and timing of intervention.

Guidelines for the management of common congenital heart diseases in India: A consensus statement on indications and timing of intervention. Indian Heart J. 2019 May - Jun;71(3):207-223 Authors: Saxena A, Relan J, Agarwal R, Awasthy N, Azad S, Chakrabarty M, Dagar KS, Devagourou V, Dharan BS, Gupta SK, Iyer KS, Jayranganath M, Joshi R, Kannan BRJ, Katewa A, Kohli V, Kothari SS, Krishnamoorthy KM, Kulkarni S, Kumar RM, Kumar RK, Maheshwari S, Manohar K, Marwah A, Mishra S, Mohanty SR, Murthy KS, Koneti NR, Suresh PV, Radhakrishnan S, Rajashekar P, Ramakrishnan S, Rao N, Rao SG, Reddy CHM, Sharma R, Shivaprakasha K, Subramanyan R, Suresh Kumar R, Talwar S, Tomar M, Verma S, Raju V Abstract INTRODUCTION: A number of guidelines are available for management of congenital heart diseases 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 congenital heart diseases, as often these patients present late in the course of the disease and may have co-existing morbidities and malnutrition. PROCESS: Guidelines emerged following expert deliberations at the National Consensus Meeting on Management of Congenital Heart Diseases in India, held on the 10th and 11th of August, 2018 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to frame evidence-b...
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