%0 Journal Article
%T Complete Endocardial Cushion Defect in the Presence of down Syndrome in a Nigerian Child: A Case Report
%A O.O. Olubanjo
%J The Cardiology
%D 2011
%I 
%X Down syndrome is the most commonly recognizable chromosomal anomaly with many associated complications. Though many of these have been documented in the Nigerian child but it thus appears to the best of the knowledge of this author that the cardiology complications have been scarcely reported. Thus, the need to report a case of completed endocardial cushion defect in the presence of trisomy 21 in a Nigerian child and make a case for routine echocardiograph in all clinically diagnosed trisomy 21 for the purpose of early intervention.
%U http://www.medwellonline.net/abstract/?doi=tcard.2008.4.6