A triple challenge: thrombocytopenia in a 7-year-old girl with unrepaired d-transposition of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary hypertension.

abstract：:Our objective was to evaluate and highlight the significance of epigastric tenderness in children and adolescents with chest pain. In a 26-months period, patients who were referred for pediatri cardiology evaluation at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences with chief complaint of chest pain were studied. Patients with...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Sabri MR,Ghavanini AA,Haghighat M,Imanieh MH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inauguration of Sequential Segmental Analysis (SSA) a few decades ago provides basic conditions to establish a universally applicable classification system for cardiac malformations. To gain practical experience, we used this method to classify a collection of 292 congenitally malformed human hearts. Our aims were...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Craatz S,Künzel E,Spanel-Borowski K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most prevalent of all birth defects and the leading cause of death in the first year of life. The molecular causes of most CHDs remain largely unknown. The LIM homeodomain transcriptor factor ISL1 is a marker for undifferentiated cardiac progenitor cells that give rise to both t...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Cresci M,Vecoli C,Foffa I,Pulignani S,Ait-Ali L,Andreassi MG

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of recurrent supraventricular tachycardia in a 3-week-old infant is described. Multiple doses of adenosine were used successfully to convert the dysrhythmia, without adverse effects or apparent tachyphylaxis. ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Fitzsimmons CL,Withington DE

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present an unusual complication of the balloon atrial septostomy procedure performed in a neonate with D-transposition of the great arteries. Cardiac tamponade developed shortly after the balloon atrial septostomy procedure and the infant was found to have a tear in the superior aspect of the left atrium, ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Blanchard WB,Knauf DG,Victorica BE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with acute symptomatic pericardial effusion had unusual echocardiographic findings. In each case, the pericardial effusion was hemorrhagic. Echocardiography displayed numerous linear bands coursing across the pericardial space. Recognition of this characteristic image may predict that an acute effusion is...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Morriss JH,Lee J,Lupinetti FM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between maternal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene with plasma homocysteine (HCY) level and offspring congenital heart diseases (CHDs). 338 mothers with offspring CHDs as case group and 306 mothers of normal ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Shi H,Yang S,Lin N,Huang P,Yu R,Chen M,Wang L,Jiang Z,Sun X

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of tetralogy of Fallot with total anomalous pulmonary venous return, left heart hypoplasia, right lung hypoplasia, and left ocular-mandibular synchinesia (Marcus-Gunn phenomenon), correctly diagnosed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and successfully operated by modified Glenn anastomo...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Festa P,Lamia AA,Murzi B,Bini MR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 4-month-old infant with torsade de pointes secondary to procainamide treatment. The infant presented with atrial flutter and converted to normal sinus rhythm with intravenous procainamide. Oral procainamide therapy was initiated as the infusion was tapered, and the patient subsequently developed incessant ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Bell D,Thoele DG,Mander G,Bauman JL

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullin (ADM) is a vasoactive peptide with potent dilatory effects. We studied whether perioperative myocardial injury could be altered by the presence of ADM. Blood samples from 19 children with congenital heart disease undergoing surgical repair were collected at six time points: preoperative, on cardiopulmon...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Szekely L,Vijay P,Sharp TG,Bando K,Brown JW

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal surgical strategy for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PA/VSD) in neonates and young infants is controversial. Staged repair may be associated with a higher risk of inter-stage mortality, while primary repair may lead to frequent post-repair re-interventions. METHODS:From 2004 t...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Lee WY,Kang SR,Im YM,Yun TJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient diagnosed with a small atrial septal defect (3-4 mm) that had grown to 24 mm in diameter over a six-year period. Timing of transcatheter intervention may be affected by growth of the atrial septal defect and this reports the first case of an atrial septal defect outgrowing the possibility of tran...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Tortoriello TA,McMahon C,Kovalchin JP,Bricker JT,Grifka RG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe great-vessel dimensions in patients with D-loop transposition of the great arteries (TGA) who have undergone atrial switch operation (ATSO). Patients who have undergone arterial switch operation for TGA have a high incidence of dilation of the neoaortic root. The incidence and degree of great artery dilati...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Yurasek GK,Gauvreau K,Powell AJ,Geva T,Brown DW

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azygos continuation of inferior venacava (IVC) is well known in association with interrupted IVC. We report azygos connection of uninterrupted IVC in a young child with complex univentricular heart. This peculiar anatomy was made suitable for univentricular repair by combining percutaneous device closure of prehepatic...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Chaudhuri M,Shivanna D,Jayranganath M,Chandra S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital left ventricular diverticulum is a rare cardiac malformation. The incidence of left ventricular diverticulum is reported to be 0.05% of all congenital heart malformations. This case series comprised three infants with the diagnosis of congenital left ventricular diverticulum determined by echocardiography. ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Yang H,Zhu Q,Chen J,Guo N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular dysfunction in patients after Fontan-like operations (FLOs) is a serious complication that might contribute to poor long-term results. Ischemic heart disease will have debilitating consequences on a Fontan heart. Ten patients (15.8 +/- 5.01 years) after FLO had transesophageal echocardiography and cardiac ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Hauser M,Bengel FM,Kühn A,Sauer U,Nekolla SG,Eicken A,Schwaiger M,Hess J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, it is clear that primary hypertension begins in childhood and that it contributes to the early development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Hypertension also increases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and that risk rises as blood pressure levels escalate. As among adult patients, overweig...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Assadi F

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) is a heritable cardiomyopathy characterized by fibro-fatty replacement of right ventricular myocardium. Diagnostic criteria, established in 1994 and modified in 2010, are based on predominately adult manifestations of ARVC/D. The goal of this paper is ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Deshpande SR,Herman HK,Quigley PC,Shinnick JK,Cundiff CA,Caltharp S,Shehata BM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedation/anesthesia is critical to cardiac catheterization in the pediatric/congenital heart patient. We sought to identify current sedation/anesthesia practices, the serious adverse event rate related to airway, sedation, or anesthesia, and the rate of intra-procedural conversion from procedural sedation to the use o...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Lin CH,Desai S,Nicolas R,Gauvreau K,Foerster S,Sharma A,Armsby L,Marshall AC,Odegard K,DiNardo J,Vincent J,El-Said H,Spaeth J,Goldstein B,Holzer R,Kreutzer J,Balzer D,Bergersen L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report describes a boy who had Kawasaki disease (KD) at age 12 months and had a recurrence one year later. The coronary arteries were normal following the initial episode; however, during the second episode he developed coronary aneurysms. Gallium-67 radionuclide imaging, echocardiography, and angiography we...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Vargo TA,Huhta JC,Moore WH,Person DA,Edwards MS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fetuses of approximately 11 weeks development with aplasia of the pulmonary as well as the aortic valve leaflets are reported. Both cases showed additional cardiac malformations. Case 1, with all leaflets missing, also had double-outlet right ventricle, hypoplastic left ventricle, large ventricular septal defect, ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Hartwig NG,Vermeij-Keers C,De Vries HE,Gittenberger-De Groot AC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2010, the Nit-Occlud® Lê (EUREVECO) became available for transcatheter coil occlusion of ventricular septal defects (VSDs). Retrospective European Registry for VSD Closure using the Nit-Occlud® Lê-VSD-Coil; analysis of the feasibility, results, safety and follow-up of VSD-closure over a 3-year period in 18 E...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Haas NA,Kock L,Bertram H,Boekenkamp R,De Wolf D,Ditkivskyy I,Freund MW,Gewillig M,Happel CM,Herberg U,Karthasyan E,Kozlik-Feldmann R,Kretschmar O,Kuzmenko Y,Milanesi O,Mueller G,Pongiglione G,Schubert S,Tarusinov G,

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with pulmonary valve stenosis associated with pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy is reported. The anomalies were detected by two-dimensional echocardiography and elevated serum enzymes, conformed by right ventriculography and muscles biopsy. The association between these two pathologies is unknown. ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Xie CH,Xia CS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic myocardial damage was identified as a complicating feature in the clinical course of 12 newborn infants who died in congestive failure with cerebral arteriovenous malformation. Electrocardiograms of 11 patients showed signs of chamber hypertrophy and T wave and ST segment features of varying degree compatible...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Jedeikin R,Rowe RD,Freedom RM,Olley PM,Gillan JE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the classic scimitar syndrome, a pulmonary vein draining all or part of the right lung enters the inferior vena cava. A variant is described with the same roentgenographic appearance, but with drainage of the anomalous pulmonary vein into both the inferior vena cava and the left atrium; the atrial septum was intact...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Pearl W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apelin is an endogenous inotrope that decreased in heart failure (HF). We aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of its level in children with HF due to congenital heart disease (CHD). Sixty children with HF due to CHD were included as a patient group. Sixty healthy children matched for age, sex, and weight served as ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： El Amrousy D,El-Mahdy H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commonly used Darling classification for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) consists of supracardiac, cardiac, infracardiac, and mixed types (Craig et al., Lab Invest 6:44-64, 1967). In supracardiac TAPVC, the common pulmonary vein drains superiorly into the left innominate vein, the superior vena...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Shah S,Singh M,John C,Maheshwari S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myopericarditis is a major cause of acquired heart disease worldwide in pediatric patients. Various viruses have been reported as the etiology, of which varicella zoster virus was first reported in 1953. However, since nationwide administration of the varicella vaccine, reports of varicella-associated myopericar...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Kao KL,Yeh SJ,Chen CC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of ventricular dysfunction and asynchrony is very important in predicting the outcome for children with a single right ventricle. However, the assessment is inaccurate and subjective because of the unusual ventricular shape. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and clinical value of velocity vector ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Wu YR,Zhang YQ,Chen LJ,Wang SS,Zhong SW,Zhang ZF

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with anomalies of the heart frequently suffer from arrhythmias that either are associated with a congenital heart defect or result from the course of the disease. For most of the bradyarrhythmias, appropriate timing of the initiation of treatment is more challenging than its eventual execution. In the case of...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Hebe J,Hansen P,Ouyang F,Volkmer M,Kuck KH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00