PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | heterotaxy |
| Phenotype | C0018799|cardiac disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 24771309 | Respiratory symptoms in patients with complex cardiac disease associated with heterotaxy might erroneously be attributed to their cardiac condition; a very low threshold for referral for pcd diagnostic testing is important in this patient group, particularly as a diagnosis of pcd impacts on perioperative management and prognosis.15 the incidence of situs anomalies in the general population is approximately 1:10 000, but there have been no studies to determine how many of these people have pcd; a widely quoted estimate is 25%. |
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