Protein-losing enteropathy after the Fontan operation: associations and predictors of clinical outcome.

abstract：AIM:The Fontan circulation is highly dependent on ventilation, improving pulmonary blood flow and cardiac output. A reduced ventilatory function is reported in these patients. The extent of this impairment and its relation to exercise capacity and quality of life is unknown and objective of this study. METHODS:This mu...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Callegari A,Neidenbach R,Milanesi O,Castaldi B,Christmann M,Ono M,Müller J,Ewert P,Hager A

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) and coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs), serial evaluation with multiple imaging modalities is recommended to guide risk stratification and management. We present the case of a 7-year-old boy with a history of KD and multiple giant CAAs who developed thrombosis in one of the aneurys...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Prsa M,Hussain T,McCrindle BW,Grosse-Wortmann L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crisscross heart is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly in which systemic and pulmonary venous streams cross without mixing at atrioventricular level. We report a case of crisscross heart with tricuspid atresia, double outlet right ventricle, and pulmonary stenosis, which was diagnosed prenatally. ...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Ayabakan C,Binnetoğlu K,Sarısoy Ö,Tokel K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to assess and compare the early and long-term effects of extracardiac conduit (EC) and lateral tunnel (LT) in patients with a functional single ventricle through meta-analysis. DESIGN:A systematic search was performed in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CNKI, VIP, CBM, and WanFang databases ...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Lin Z,Ge H,Xue J,Wu G,Du J,Hu X,Zhao Q

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study examined parent stress and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among families of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) referred for psychological services. METHODS:Parents of 54 children (85% boys) aged 3 to 13 (Mage  = 7.48, SD = 2.38) completed measures to assess parenting stress (Paren...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Kaugars A,Shields C,Brosig C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So-called heterotaxy affects lateralization of the thoracic and abdominal organs. Congenital malformations may be present in one of several organ systems. Cardiac involvement includes both structural and conduction abnormalities. Data regarding arrhythmias in heterotaxy come from case reports and small case series. We...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Loomba RS,Willes RJ,Kovach JR,Anderson RH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect. Advances in surgical technique and postoperative care have improved survival which is now very good. Patients now face long-term morbidities such as reduced exercise tolerance and arrthymias. Cardiologists caring for these patients are confronted...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Hill G

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We studied, as a physiological benchmark, acute effects of right ventricular (RV) apical, RV outflow, and left ventricular (LV) pacing in children with normal cardiac function on LV and RV function and ventricular-ventricular interactions. DESIGN:The design of the study was a prospective, acute intervention....

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Friedberg MK,Dubin AM,Van Hare GF,McDaniel G,Niksch A,Rosenthal DN

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To outline the etiology, clinical course, short-term survival to discharge and neurological outcome of infants (<1 yr) with new cardiac diagnoses presenting to a pediatric intensive care (PICU) unit with acute cardiac compromise. METHODS:Retrospective search of a computerized database and medical case notes for a...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Dhandayuthapani G,Chakrabarti S,Ranasinghe A,Hunt L,Grant D,Martin RP,Kenny D

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary objective of this study was to demonstrate that pulmonary artery (PA) debanding via cardiac catheterization using balloon angioplasty is feasible and safe in swine. The secondary objectives were to determine the acute and long-term effects of this therapy. DESIGN:This is a chronic survival exper...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Perez M,Kumar TS,Hoskoppal D,Akkhawattanangkul Y,Allen K,Knott-Craig CJ,Waller BR,Sathanandam S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We previously identified a pathogenic germline DICER1 variant in a child with transposition of the great arteries who was a member of a family with DICER1 syndrome. In view of a report linking Dicer1 knockout in murine cardiomyocytes to cardiac outflow defects, we investigated the involvement of DICER1 in tra...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Sabbaghian N,Digilio MC,Blue GM,Revil T,Winlaw DS,Foulkes WD

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scimitar syndrome is characterized by anomalous pulmonary venous drainage of a part or the whole of the right lung into the inferior vena cava (IVC). It is extremely uncommon in scimitar syndrome for the pulmonary veins to drain anomalously to a site other than the IVC. The following case report describes an otherwise...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Kotecha MK,Krishnamanohar SR,Kumar RS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deficits in swallowing physiology are a leading morbidity for infants with functional single ventricles and systemic outflow tract obstruction following stage 1 palliation. Despite the high prevalence of this condition, the underlying deficits that cause this post-operative impairment remain poorly understoo...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： McGrattan KE,McGhee H,DeToma A,Hill EG,Zyblewski SC,Lefton-Greif M,Halstead L,Bradley SM,Martin-Harris B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that gender differences in cardiovascular outcomes found in adults also are present in children who undergo surgical repair for congenital heart disease. METHODS:California statewide hospital discharge data 1989-99 were used to study outcomes in children <18 years undergoing cardiac sur...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Klitzner TS,Lee M,Rodriguez S,Chang RK

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BACKGROUND; Several studies have demonstrated the utility of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in the months following cardiac transplant. The purpose of this study was to analyze longitudinal BNP data in pediatric cardiac transplant patients and determine the efficacy of BNP in routine follow-up of transplan...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Bramlet M,Moore R,Murphy D,Caldwell R,Darragh R,Schamberger M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pulmonary autograft aortic root replacement (Ross' operation) is now associated with low operative risk. Recent series suggest that patients with primary aortic insufficiency have diminished autograft durability and that patients with large discrepancies between pulmonary and aortic valve sizes have a low but...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Morales DL,Carberry KE,Balentine C,Heinle JS,McKenzie ED,Fraser CD Jr

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The right ventricle (RV) supports the systemic circulation in patients who have had an intraatrial repair of transposition of the great arteries or have congenitally corrected transposition. There is concern about the ability of a systemic RV to support the additional volume load of pregnancy, and previous...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Bowater SE,Selman TJ,Hudsmith LE,Clift PF,Thompson PJ,Thorne SA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their families require qualified combined medical and psychosocial information, care, and counseling. This study aimed to analyze CHD patients' and parents' perception of disease-specific knowledge, state of health, and impairments experienced ...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Helm PC,Kempert S,Körten MA,Lesch W,Specht K,Bauer UMM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine if patients evaluated using the pediatric chest pain standardized clinical assessment and management plan (SCAMP) in cardiology clinic were later diagnosed with unrecognized cardiac pathology, and to determine if other patients with cardiac pathology not enrolled in the SCAMP would have been ide...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Kane DA,Friedman KG,Fulton DR,Geggel RL,Saleeb SF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Published case reports suggest that congenital portosystemic venous connections (PSVC) and other abdominal venous anomalies may be relatively frequent and potentially important in patients with polysplenia syndrome. Our objective was to investigate the frequency and range of portal and other abdominal systemi...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： McElhinney DB,Marx GR,Newburger JW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old male patient, with a medical history of surgically repaired double outlet right ventricle presented with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and hepatitis C with cirrhosis, presented with New York Heart Association Class IV heart failure. During evaluation for a liver transplant, he was deemed a poor surgical ca...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Keswani A,Verma A,Dann K,Ventura L,Lucas V,Shah S,Ramee S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe treatment, survival, and morbidity for liveborn infants with isolated transposition of great arteries (TGA). DESIGN:Population-based data from 7 European registries of congenital malformations (EUROCAT). RESULTS:Ninety-seven infants were diagnosed with isolated TGA and livebirth prevalence was 2...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Garne E,Loane MA,Nelen V,Bakker MK,Gener B,Abramsky L,Addor MC,Queisser-Luft A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Congenital cardiac defects represent the most common group of birth defects, affecting an estimated six per 1000 births. Genetic characterization of patients and families with cardiac defects has identified a number of genes required for heart development. Yet, despite the rapid pace of these advances, mutati...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Thorsson T,Russell WW,El-Kashlan N,Soemedi R,Levine J,Geisler SB,Ackley T,Tomita-Mitchell A,Rosenfeld JA,Töpf A,Tayeh M,Goodship J,Innis JW,Keavney B,Russell MW

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mean platelet volume (MPV), platecrit, and platelet distribution width (PDW) are markers of platelet activation. Previous studies have found that platelet activation occurs in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Platelet indices including MPV, PDW, and platecrit have not been studied in children w...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Mese T,Guven B,Yilmazer MM,Karadeniz C,Ozdemir R,Doksoz O

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a rare case of spontaneous closure of a fistula between the left coronary artery and the right ventricle (RV) within a few days of newborn period. A 14-day-old male newborn was referred to our clinic for investigation of tachypnea and cardiac murmur. A color flow Doppler echocardiography revealed turbulent ...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Yilmazer MM,Demir F,Yolbaş I,Bilici M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report demonstrated an apical muscular ventricular septal defect (VSD) that was a large defect but behaved like a small defect because of the restrictive flow across the anomalous muscle bundles in the right ventricular (RV) apex. The anomalous muscle bundles separated the RV sinus into two parts: the RV ape...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Khositseth A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Obesity affects adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). The effect of an increased body mass index (BMI) with respect to morbidity and mortality has not been evaluated in adults with complex CHD. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of increased BMI on heart failure and mortality in univentricular pa...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Martinez SC,Byku M,Novak EL,Cedars AM,Eghtesady P,Ludbrook PA,Billadello JJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) patients are prone to pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) due to various cardiopulmonary causes. However, the association of DS with pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is not adequately described. We illustrate three cases from our center and an additional 13 cases from an extensive review of the literature of...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Gowda S,Bhat D,Feng Z,Chang CH,Ross RD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) undergoing surgery in adulthood represent a challenge. We report our experience with such patients in or beyond the fourth decade of life. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort. SETTING:Multispeciality tertiary level referral center PATIENTS:Forty-one (age 30-52 years) with TO...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Talwar S,Meena A,Choudhary SK,Saxena A,Kothari SS,Juneja R,Airan B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinical genetic testing is expanding rapidly, but the application of new testing has not been reported in an unselected, comprehensive congenital heart disease (CHD) patient population. This study aims to identify cytogenetic testing practices and diagnostic yield in infants with CHD as an important first st...

journal_title：Congenital heart disease

authors： Connor JA,Hinton RB,Miller EM,Sund KL,Ruschman JG,Ware SM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00