Abstract
The article by Greenwood and Nadas (Pediatrics 58:893, December 1976) may be misinterpreted. It states that the death rate in children with Down's syndrome and congenital heart disease is high. Although this is indeed true, the fact that the majority of these patients did not have corrective surgery must account for some of the high mortality. For example, of the ten patients with an isolated patent ductus arteriosus, six were not corrected. Also, 61 of the 66 patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) did not have surgery.
- Copyright © 1978 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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