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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hudsmith, L E
• Thorne, S A

Titel

Transition of care from paediatric to adult services in cardiology

Ist Teil von

• Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2007-10, Vol.92 (10), p.927-930

Ort / Verlag

London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Quelle

BMJ Journals Archiv - DFG Nationallizenzen

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable time, and unless transition is managed sensitively, teenagers may disappear from medical care with a significant proportion returning to specialist care only by default or when problems develop. 11 - 13 Many young adults with congenital heart disease will require further intervention, develop heart failure or arrhythmias or be at increased risk of premature death, and many may want to become pregnant. [...]nearly all, except for those with the simplest cardiac lesions, will require expert cardiology care and management at some point in their lives. Care of these patients must involve local hospitals closely linked with specialist centres in order to provide patient facilities ranging from simple blood tests (eg, anticoagulation monitoring) in the local hospital to tertiary referral specialist services with specialist adult congenital cardiothoracic surgeons. 10 14 A service model of transitional care, adjusted from the recent Department of Health document, is shown in fig 1 .