caa a22 4500 388115823 CHVBK 20180307125406.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1047951100007460 doi S1047951100007460 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1047951100007460 Declining mortality from congenital heart disease related to innovations in diagnosis and treatment: a population-based study [Elektronische Daten] The majority of live births with severe congenital cardiac malformations that do not undergo intervention of some form die prematurely. The population of Malta provides an ideal closed cohort from which to monitor trends. We have observed a significant declining specific mortality from congenital heart disease, and circumstantial evidence relates this decline to the introduction of new techniques used in the diagnosis and treatment of these malformations. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Heart defects-congenital nationallicence mortality nationallicence trends nationallicence diagnosis nationallicence surgery nationallicence Grech Victor paediatric Department and Gynaecology, St Luke's Hospital, Guardamangia, Malta Savorja-Ventura Charles Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Luke's Hospital, Guardamangia, Malta Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-01), 78-80 1047-9511 9:1<78 1999 9 CTY https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100007460 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100007460 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grech Victor paediatric Department and Gynaecology, St Luke's Hospital, Guardamangia, Malta NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Savorja-Ventura Charles Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Luke's Hospital, Guardamangia, Malta NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-01), 78-80 1047-9511 9:1<78 1999 9 CTY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge