Do otherwise healthy children with simple congenital cardiac defects have a higher mortality when compared to the general population?
Nearly 1 in 100 children is born with a congenital heart defect (CHD). Fortunately, only a minority of children have defects which require treatment over the course of their life. The remainder will only need regular medical follow-up. The absence of systematic and accurate long term follow-up data for these children and the assumption that…
