IL10 Promoter Polymorphisms are Associated with Rheumatic Heart Disease in Saudi Arabian Patients.

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：:Eighteen of 25 survivors of aortic valvotomy in infancy were reinvestigated by cross-sectional echocardiography a mean of 7.5 (2.3-13.4) years after surgery. They had been operated at a median age of 38 (5-330) days. At the follow-up examination the gradient across the aortic valve was 41 +/- 19 (15-85) mmHg and the e...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Vogel M,Sebening F,Sauer U,Bühlmeyer K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noonan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease that manifests a wide variety of clinical characteristics. The syndrome is also associated with some cardiac defects. Half of all Noonan syndrome cases are caused by mutations in the PTPN11 gene, but only limited data are available regarding aortic involvement in these ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Jefferies JL,Belmont JW,Pignatelli R,Towbin JA,Craigen WJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 12-year-old boy with severe congenital aortic stenosis in whom magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with delayed contrast enhancement demonstrated extensive subendocardial hyperenhancement within the left ventricle. The hyperenhancement was confirmed to be subendocardial infarct and fibrosis by histo...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： La Salvia EA,Gilkeson RC,Dahms BB,Siwik E

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its first description in Japan 30 years ago, Kawasaki disease has been reported worldwide. Although an infectious etiology is suspected based on the epidemiology and clinical features, a causative agent has not been identified. The majority of the morbidity and mortality associated with this condition is attribu...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Laupland KB,Dele Davies H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebstein anomaly of mitral valve (MV) is an extremely rare congenital heart disease. In the current report, we present a case of Ebstein of MV that was diagnosed prenatally. Fetal echocardiogram showed that the posterior leaflet of MV was tethered to the lateral wall of left ventricle (LV) with downward displacement in...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Aly S,Bokowski J,Diab K,Muller BA

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a pulse oximetry screening protocol at a city of mild elevation with a specific focus on the false-positive screening rate. Pulse oximetry screening was performed according to the proposed guidelines endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics at a center in Tucson, AZ, a...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Han LM,Klewer SE,Blank KM,Seckeler MD,Barber BJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cardiomyocytes withdraw from the cell cycle soon after birth. This process is called terminal differentiation. The c-kit, a receptor tyrosine kinase, is expressed on cardiomyocytes immediately after birth but for only a few days. In mice with genetic c-kit dysfunction, adult cardiomyocytes are phenotypically...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Naqvi N,Li M,Yahiro E,Graham RM,Husain A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary rhabdomyosarcoma of the heart observed in a 3-week-old infant, provides an opportunity to review this rare clinical entity; 61 reported cases are collated. The more common sites are right ventricle, left atrium, and right atrium; the tumour may protrude into the cavity and cause obstruction. Echocardiography...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Schmaltz AA,Apitz J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a self-limiting systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. KD is often complicated by coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs), which develop in about 20-25% of untreated children and 3-5% of children treated with intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. To identify the risk loci for CAA susceptibility in pa...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Kwon YC,Kim JJ,Yu JJ,Yun SW,Yoon KL,Lee KY,Kil HR,Kim GB,Han MK,Song MS,Lee HD,Ha KS,Sohn S,Hong YM,Jang GY,Lee JK,Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium.

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortopulmonary window coexisting with tetralogy of Fallot (TF) was prospectively diagnosed by two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography and Doppler in an 18-month-old boy; the diagnosis was confirmed by cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography. Surgical correction was performed, but the patient died in the operating ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Carminati M,Borghi A,Valsecchi O,Quattrociocchi M,Balduzzi A,Rusconi P,Russo MG,Festa P,Preda L,Tiraboschi R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries is a rare anomaly that is thought to arise from a defect in looping of the primitive cardiac tube. Cor triatriatum is another rare congenital cardiac anomaly due to faulty incorporation of the common pulmonary vein into the left atrium. We present a rare case ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Jayranganath M,Subramanian A,Manjunath CN

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-week-old phenotypically female infant was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and expired on the third day of life. An autopsy revealed the patient to also have male pseudohermaphroditism and uterus bicornis bicollis. The association of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and male pseudohermaphroditism has been...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Calaluce RD,Huang TH,Quesenberry JT,Evans ML,Luger AM,O'Connor TA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative arrhythmia is a common complication after open heart surgery in children. JET is the most common and dangerous arrhythmia. We aimed to assess safety and efficacy of prophylactic amiodarone in preventing JET in children underwent cardiac surgery and to assess risk factors for JET among our patients. In to...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Amrousy DE,Elshehaby W,Feky WE,Elshmaa NS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slope of the relation between the unadjusted QT interval and heart rate during the face immersion test has been reported to be useful as an index for predicting an abnormal lengthening of the QT interval for children with nonfamilial long QT syndrome. Our goals were to determine whether we can replace the slope of...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Kamimura J,Yoshinaga M,Kono Y,Yanagi S,Nishi J,Nomura Y,Fukushige T,Kusubae R,Shinkura R,Miyata K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 6-year-old girl with superoinferior ventricles, criss-cross atrioventricular (AV) relationships with solitus atria, a D-loop, L-transposition of the great arteries, subpulmonary stenosis, but without a ventricular septal defect (VSD). The diagnosis was made by echocardiographic examination and was strength...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Alday LE,Juaneda E

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Severe atrioventricular valve (AVV) or semilunar valve (SLV) regurgitation in the setting of a single ventricle physiology may proceed to valve replacement if repair strategies fail. Outcome data for these children are limited. We present transplant-free survival of a case series of children with single ventricle phys...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Alshami N,Sarvestani AL,Thomas AS,St Louis J,Kochilas L,Raghuveer G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various echocardiographic parameters are determined in the assessment and evaluation of a patent ductus arteriosus. In isolation, many of these parameters have a low sensitivity and specificity for ductal hemodynamic significance compared with ductal size. This study aimed to correlate various echocardiographic parame...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Sehgal A,Menahem S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous correction for complete transposition with intact ventricular septum remains the preferred surgical option in most centers (Mustard or Senning procedures). The long-term function of the morphologically right ventricle and tricuspid valve, which continue to sustain the systemic circulation thereafter, remains a ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Smith A,Wilkinson JL,Anderson RH,Arnold R,Dickinson DF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the right subaxillary vertical mini-incision (RAVI) used for the closure of doubly committed subarterial ventricular septal defect (SAVSD) through tricuspid approach only. From June 2015 to September 2016, 32 SAVSD patients (mean age 2.4 ± 1.9 years, range 0.7-8 years) under...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Liu R,Rui L,Zhang B,Lin Y,Li S,Hua Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric primary cardiomyopathy is rare but serious, having high mortality; hypertrophic and dilated types are the most common. Its etiology has been mainly considered idiopathic; however, next generation sequencing techniques have revealed nearly half of idiopathic pediatric cases arose from specific genetic mutatio...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Rojnueangnit K,Sirichongkolthong B,Wongwandee R,Khetkham T,Noojarern S,Khongkraparn A,Wattanasirichaigoon D

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-year-old child who had had palliative surgery as a neonate for an absent right atrioventricular connection and double-inlet ventricle was shown to be developmentally retarded. Trisomy for the short arm of chromosome 8 was demonstrated, resulting from a familial 8:13 translocation, with a high risk of recurrence....

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Burn J,Baraitser M,Hughes DT,Saldana-Garcia P,Taylor JF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the use of cross-sectional imaging--echocardiography and contrast-enhanced computed tomography--to confirm the presence of a foramen-type defect of the left pericardium with herniation of the left atrial appendage. ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Burrows PE,Smallhorn JS,Trusler GA,Daneman A,Moes CA,Rowe RD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the percentile-based definitions of elevated blood pressure (BP) and hypertension for children and adolescents of all ages in the 2004 fourth report, the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) BP guideline recommends a change to single BP cut-offs for clinical diagnosis (120/< 80-129/< 80 mmHg for el...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Liu Q,Hou Y,Yang L,Zhao M,Li S,Xi B

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise testing can highlight repolarisation abnormalities in adults with coronary artery disease. Late after Kawasaki disease (KD), increased QT dispersion (QTd) has been reported on resting ECG in children, but there are no reported studies of QTd during exercise. Our objective was to determine the pattern of QTd r...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Gravel H,Dahdah N,Fournier A,Mathieu MÈ,Curnier D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery anatomy represents a challenging and, often, determining predictor of outcome in an arterial switch operation (ASO). Impact of specific coronary artery variants, such as single, intramural and inverted, on time-related events following ASO, is, yet, to be determined. We sought to compare early and late...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Al Anani S,Fughhi I,Taqatqa A,Elzein C,Ilbawi MN,Polimenakos AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein describe, for the first time, the fetal presentation of a case of ventricular inversion, restrictive ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, hypertensive left ventricle and double outlet right ventricle at 34 weeks of gestational age. Postnatal echocardiography confirmed the prenatal diagnosis. The pa...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： El-Asmar JM,Degheili JA,Al-Halabi E,Sklansky M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hemodynamically stable neonate with transposition of the great arteries suddenly went into cardiac arrest during preparation for transport to the operating room. Emergency echocardiography during cardiac massage detected coronary air embolism as the presumed cause of arrest. After about 15 minutes of resuscitation, ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Weidenbach M,Riede FT,Dähnert I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color-coded two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography confirmed the presence of severe congenital mitral regurgitation in an 8-month-old infant. Intraoperative inspection revealed an isolated perforation in the anterior leaflet. ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Schranz D,Oelert H,Iversen S,Schuind A,Huth R,Jüngst BK,Stopfkuchen H,Erbel R

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00