Open AccessGenetic and Environmental Factors Contributing to Cardiovascular Malformation: A Unified Approach to Risk
Author(s) -
Hinton Robert B.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.113.000292
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , heart disease , disease , intensive care medicine , cardiology
In the late 19th century, William Osler notoriously quipped that treating infants with cardiac defects was futile, thereby encouraging Maude Abbott to pursue her rigorous studies of pathologic heart specimens. Ultimately, this work resulted in The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease , which is