Release of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in children with acute rheumatic carditis.

abstract：:Senning operation is a surgical treatment for transposition of great arteries that can be complicated by post-procedural atrial or caval baffle leaks. We present a 6-year-old boy with a history of Senning repair for transposition of great arteries, who developed a pulmonary venous baffle leak. Percutaneous baffle leak...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Çetiner N,Yıldırım Baştuhan I,Çeliker A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the gross motor development of infants who had undergone cardiac surgery in the neonatal or early infant period. METHODS:Gross motor performance was assessed when infants were 4, 8, 12, and 16 months of age with the Alberta Infant Motor Scale. This scale is a discriminative gross motor outcome me...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Long SH,Harris SR,Eldridge BJ,Galea MP

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Holt-Oram syndrome was confirmed in an asymptomatic 36-year-old man by a novel TBX5-gene mutation (exon 8 acceptor splicing site, c.663-1G greater than A). Computed tomography showed an atrial septal defect and an anomalous right coronary artery crossing between the aorta and pulmonary arteries. Surgery corrected ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Vianna CB,Miura N,Pereira AC,Jatene MB

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between long QT interval and sudden infant death syndrome has been clearly established. Several studies have been conducted to determine the evolution of the QT interval in childhood from birth, but only in full-term newborns. However, data on the QT interval in pre-term infants are extremely...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Séguéla PE,Rozé JC,Gournay V

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the rate of hospitalization for acute respiratory tract infection in children less than 24 months with haemodynamically significant congenital cardiac disease, and to describe associated risk factors, preventive measures, aetiology, and clinical course. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We followed 760 subj...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Medrano C,Garcia-Guereta L,Grueso J,Insa B,Ballesteros F,Casaldaliga J,Cuenca V,Escudero F,de la Calzada LG,Luis M,Luque M,Mendoza A,Prada F,del Mar Rodríguez M,Suarez P,Quero C,Guilera M,CIVIC Study Group from the Span

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decades ago, mass-scale epidemiologic studies were undertaken to accurately describe the prevalence of congenital heart disease and associated malformations, and to identify inheritance patterns, teratogenic influence and aetiologic underpinnings. Despite phenomenal breakthroughs in molecular diagnosis of congenital h...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Nies M,Brenner JI

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously reported four heterozygous missense mutations of MYH7, KCNQ1, MYLK2, and TMEM70 in a single three-generation Chinese family with dual Long QT and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy phenotypes for the first time. However, the clinical course among the family members was various, and the potential myoca...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Wang J,Guo RQ,Guo JY,Zuo L,Lei CH,Shao H,Wang LF,Zhang YM,Liu LW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Aims This is the first autopsy study in the United Kingdom to analyse the demographic and pathological characteristics of atheroma associated with sudden cardiac death in young people. METHODS:An observational retrospective study of referred cases of sudden cardiac death in the young (⩽35 years) associated ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Green AC,Sheppard MN

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates clinical and epidemiological features of acute rheumatic fever using the data of last 25 years in our hospital in south-east of Turkey. The medical records of 377 patients with acute rheumatic fever admitted to Pediatric Cardiology Department of Çukurova University during 1993-2017 were retrospect...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Erdem S,Demir F,Ayana M,Canan O,Okuducu YK,Arslan A,Kucukosmanoglu O,Özbarlas N

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Common arterial trunk with arch obstruction is a rare conotruncal abnormality. We report, with confirmatory images, a neonate with this anomaly and additional supracardiac partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection, as well as phenylketonuria. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Ayyildiz P,Kasar T,Güzeltas A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Aetiology of protein-losing enteropathy in single-ventricle type CHD is multi-factorial. REPORT:We describe two Fontan patients with protein-losing enteropathy who presented with cytomegalovirus-associated colitis. DISCUSSION:Fontan patients display risk factors for cytomegalovirus-induced gastroenteropa...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Bauer C,Tulzer G

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SCN5A encodes sodium-channel α-subunit Nav1.5. The mutations of SCN5A can lead to hereditary cardiac arrhythmias such as the long-QT syndrome type 3 and Brugada syndrome. Here we sought to identify novel mutations in a family with arrhythmia. METHODS:Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of the proband, who w...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Huang H,Ding DB,Fan LL,Jin JY,Li JJ,Guo S,Chen YQ,Xiang R

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial dysfunction has been reported in hypoxaemic patients with the Eisenmenger syndrome, but a direct correlation between levels of endothelial markers and the severity of hypoxaemia has not been explored. With this in mind, we compared the levels in the plasma of tissue-type plasminogen activator, thrombomodul...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： de P S Soares R,Maeda NY,Bydlowski SP,Lopes AA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of microorganisms were hypothesised as an aetiology of the Kawasaki disease. Unfortunately, no specific agent that provides reproducible evidence has yet been reported. We report two cases of extremely rare Kawasaki disease with tsutsugamushi disease. These case reports suggest that Kawasaki disease can rarel...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Hwang HS,Kim YJ,Song MS

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABSTRACTPatent ductus arteriosus is among the most common congenital heart diseases. With the increasing use of transcatheter closure procedures, the incidence of complications related to the procedure has increased. Embolization of the ductus closure device to the pulmonary artery is a very rare complication. Since t...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Kılıç Y,Harbelioğlu MA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undiagnosed coronary sinus obstruction can be a source of paediatric exertional chest pain and death. We present a case series of three interesting children who developed only exertional angina from various degrees of coronary sinus stenosis or atresia. We discuss the diagnosis and management of each case and the pote...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Hegde SA,Moore J,Suarez WA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hyperinflammatory response to COVID-19 is being described in children. While this presents, and responds to management, similar to that of Kawasaki Disease it is being coined a new entity. But is it really? We explore how this phenomenon may be Kawasaki Disease with a new trigger. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Loomba RS,Villarreal E,Flores S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess clinical presentation, treatment, and outcome of children with Ebstein's anomaly. BACKGROUND:Data on long-term outcome of children with Ebstein's anomaly are scarce. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of all children with Ebstein's anomaly treated between February, 1979 and January, 2009 in a single ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Oxenius A,Attenhofer Jost CH,Prêtre R,Dave H,Bauersfeld U,Kretschmar O,Seifert B,Balmer C,Valsangiacomo Buechel ER

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial to observe or close symptomatic congenital coronary artery fistula in infants. We herein describe a medium-sized symptomatic congenital coronary artery fistula that underwent rapid spontaneous closure in an infant aged <3 months. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Lu WH,Huang TC,Hsieh KS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetralogy of Fallot, when associated with atrioventricular septal defect permitting shunting at ventricular level, represents a complex cyanotic congenital malformation. Experience with surgical repair is limited, and results vary considerably. Between 1984 and 1996, we repaired 14 consecutive patients with this combi...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Tláskal T,Hucín B,Kostelka M,Chaloupecký V,Marek J,Tax P,Janouàek J,Kuèera V,Hruda J,Reich O,Skovránek J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the case of a 27-year-old woman with Noonan syndrome presenting with ventricular fibrillation. After successful defibrillation, echocardiography revealed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Normal echocardiographic cardiac structure and function were r...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Aydin A,Yilmazer MS,Gurol T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increase in long-term survival of post-transplant children, there is a paradigm shift in the emphasis of post-transplant care. We describe de novo cardiovascular abnormalities, which occurred in otherwise asymptomatic paediatric liver transplant recipients, who received liver allografts between 1991 and 2014 ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Huang JG,Lim T,Quek SC,Quak SH,Aw MM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate long-term outcome of initial aortic valve intervention in a paediatric population with congenital aortic stenosis, and to determine risk factors associated with reintervention. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From 1985 to 2009, 77 patients with congenital aortic stenosis and a mean age of 5.8±5.6 years at ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Hochstrasser L,Ruchat P,Sekarski N,Hurni M,von Segesser LK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our purpose was to determine the outcome of pregnancy and delivery in patients with coronary arterial lesions caused by Kawasaki disease. METHODS AND RESULTS:We surveyed by mail the Japanese national experience of pregnancy and delivery in patients known to have Kawasaki disease. The first questionnaire was...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Tsuda E,Kawamata K,Neki R,Echigo S,Chiba Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to report on the short-term and mid-term outcomes of preterm infants who underwent patent ductus arteriosus ligation through anterior mini-thoracotomy. METHODS:Data for 103 preterm infants who underwent patent ductus arteriosus clipping through an anterior mini-thoracotomy at the 2nd...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Selcuk A,Cicek M,Yurdakok O,Kilic Y,İzgi Coskun F,Erdem H,Saritas T,Hekim Yilmaz E,Korun O,Altin HF,Sasmazel A,Aydemir NA

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether the exercise tolerance test can provide diagnostic and prognostic information regarding children and young adults and help predict outcome. METHODS:A total of 87 patients, aged 7-29 years (median 13, mean 13.4) were selected retrospectively. They underwent exerci...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Sajnach-Menke MA,Walpole SC

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Femoral vein access is the first choice for percutaneous atrial septal defect closure, and when it cannot be used due to anatomic reasons, the alternative sites should be considered, frequently increasing the complexity of the procedure. Here we report the case of a 3-year-old boy, with situs inversus and dextrocardia...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Oliveira EC,Moura MAG,Almeida JA,Ribeiro ALP,Nascimento BR

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of mitral valvar prolapse has been reported to be between 0.6 and 21%. The goal of our study was to evaluate its prevalence in young athletes who underwent hand-held echocardiography as a screening mostly in southern California. METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed 1742 echocardiograms that we...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Hepner AD,Morrell H,Greaves S,Greaves J,Movahed MR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant right subclavian artery is the most common congenital aortic arch anomaly. There are a few reports concerning the clinical manifestations and follow-up of this CHD detected by echocardiographic screening. METHODS:A total of 1737 full-term neonates, with a male-to-female ratio of 900:837, received e...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Jan SL,Lin MC,Chan SC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Percutaneous closure of patent ductus arteriosus has become the treatment of choice in many centres. In patients with large ducts and pulmonary hypertension, transcatheter closure has been achieved with success using the Amplatzer Duct Occluder or even the Amplatzer Muscular Ventricular Septal Defect Occlude...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： García-Montes JA,Camacho-Castro A,Sandoval-Jones JP,Buendía-Hernández A,Calderón-Colmenero J,Patiño-Bahena E,Zabal C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00