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Karatza, Ageliki A.; Panagiotopoulou, Olga; Gkentzi, Despoina; Dimitriou, Gabriel
Balkan medical journal, 11/2019, Letnik: 36, Številka: 6Journal Article
To the Editor, The incidence of congenital heart disease is fairly high in neonates with heart murmurs, ranging from 22% to 86% across studies (1). Therefore, low threshold of referral is recommended in this patient population. A cardiac murmur is identified in approximately 2% of routine neonatal examinations (2). The absence of a murmur does not preclude congenital heart disease. Indeed, more than half of the neonates with congenital heart disease diagnosed in infancy are missed on routine neonatal examination and more than one third are missed at the 6th-week examination (3).
