American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 5 , Pages 874-879 , November 2009

Mortality associated with adult congenital heart disease: Trends in the US population from 1979 to 2005

  • Priya Pillutla, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
    • ,
  • Kanaka D. Shetty, MD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
    • ,
  • Elyse Foster, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Elyse Foster, MD, Cardiology, University of California Medical Center, Room M322, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 9414-124.

Received 22 June 2009 ,Accepted 12 August 2009.

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PII: S0002-8703(09)00641-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.08.014

American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 5 , Pages 874-879 , November 2009

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