Longitudinal observations of left ventricular end-diastolic dimension in children using echocardiography.

abstract：:The clinical and pathological features of primary pulmonary artery sarcoma in two children are reported. The first patient presented with right ventricular outflow obstruction and underwent successful surgical resection of his tumor. The second patient developed cardiac arrest following a relatively short period of sy...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Farooki ZQ,Chang CH,Jackson WL,Clapp SK,Hakimi M,Arciniegas E,Pinsky WW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objective was to create a clinically relevant model of right ventricular hypertension and to study right ventricular myocardial pathophysiology in growing organism. The secondary objective was to analyse the effect of oral enoximone (phosphodiesterase inhibitor) therapy on right ventricular haemodynamic pa...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Kobr J,Slavik Z,Uemura H,Saeed I,Furck A,Pizingerová K,Fremuth J,Tonar Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease often necessitates a period of myocardial ischemia during cardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegic arrest, followed by reperfusion after aortic cross-clamp removal. In experimental models, myocardial ischemia-reperfusion is associated with significant oxidative stress and ve...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Sznycer-Taub N,Mackie S,Peng YW,Donohue J,Yu S,Aiyagari R,Charpie J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The congenital anomaly of aortopulmonary window is rare. Its combination with interruption of the aortic arch has been previously recognized and reported in infants and children. Early and complete repair of such a congenital anomaly may prevent progression to cardiac failure and premature death. We describe the succe...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Davies MJ,Dyamenahalli U,Leanage RR,Firmin RK

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOXA1 gene plays a fundamental role in embryonic morphogenesis. Recent studies in humans and mice have indicated that HOXA1 plays a previously unrecognized role in cardiovascular system development. Congenital heart disease (CHD), particularly ventricular septal defect (VSD), might be a clinically isolated manifes...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Liu J,Wang B,Chen X,Li H,Wang J,Cheng L,Ma X,Gao B

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been substantial controversy regarding treatment of congenital heart defects in infants with trisomies 13 and 18. Most reports have focused on surgical outcomes versus expectant treatment, and rarely there has been an effort to consolidate existing evidence into a more coherent way to help clinicians with de...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Carvajal HG,Callahan CP,Miller JR,Rensink BL,Eghtesady P

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer a multifaceted platform to study cardiac developmental biology, understand disease mechanisms, and develop novel therapies. Remarkable progress over the last two decades has led to methods to obtain highly pure hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) with reasonable ease and s...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Marchianò S,Bertero A,Murry CE

更新日期：2019-10-01 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 hybrid pathway for the management of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome was pioneered at our institution and is the preferred approach compared with the traditional Norwood pathway. Patients undergoing this surgery are generally <6 months of age, and pain management in this age group after surgery for c...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Naguib AN,Dewhirst E,Winch PD,Simsic J,Galantowicz M,Tobias JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) has been used in the preoperative evaluation of patients with congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. The purpose of this study was to characterize responses in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) to oxygen and increasing doses of NO during cardiac catheterization and to determin...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Cannon BC,Feltes TF,Fraley JK,Grifka RG,Riddle EM,Kovalchin JP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac NK-2 transcription factors are the vertebrate relatives of the Drosophila tinman gene. Without the Drosophila tinman gene, fruit flies fail to form their heart ("dorsal vessel"), and mutations or altered expression of cardiac NK-2 genes may lead to abnormal heart formation in vertebrates. Although the card...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Bartlett H,Veenstra GJ,Weeks DL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy in children still has a poor prognosis with high rates of mortality and cardiac transplantation (resp. around 20 and 25%). Awaiting transplantation or possible recovery, these pediatric patients are mechanically supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or a paracorporeal ventricular as...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Mets G,Panzer J,De Wolf D,Bové T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiograms (heart rate, QRS voltage, QRS axis in the frontal plane. Q-Tc interval) echocardiograms [left ventricular fractional shortening (LVFS); preejection period (PEP); PEP/left ventricular ejection time (PEP/LVET) ratio; end-diastolic left ventricular free wall and interventricular septum thickness; prese...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Balducci G,Acquafredda A,Amendola F,Natuzzi M,Laforgia N,Cavallo L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital aneurysms of the thoracic venous system are rare. In particular, innominate venous aneurysms are extremely rare. We describe a 16-year-old girl whose chest x-ray suggested a mediastinal tumor. Three-dimensional contrast-enhancement magnetic resonance venography showed a giant sacciform aneurysm of the left ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Tsuji A,Katada Y,Tanimoto M,Fujita I

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) function is impaired by increased afterload in neonates with severe coarctation of the aorta, which may result in endocardial fibroelastosis. Repair of the coarctation usually solves the problem, with LV function normalizing after a few weeks. This report describes a patient who underwent success...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Celik L,Becker V,Hammel D,Nürnberg JH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmias in pregnancy are becoming more common given more available and effective medical, ablation and device treatment options. Several changes associated with pregnancy, increased blood volume, cardiac output, and heart rate secondary to an increased sympathetic state, facilitate more frequent occurrences of arr...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Friday KP,Moak JP,Fries MH,Iqbal SN

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balloon angioplasty for native coarctation of the aorta in infants and children is gaining acceptance as an alternative to surgery in discrete membranous obstruction. The aim of this study was to assess the immediate and intermediate-term effectiveness and safety of balloon angioplasty in infants and children with dis...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Massoud Iel S,Farghly HE,Abdul-Monem A,Botros N,Kassem A,Magraby AE,Dawood A,Abdul-Hakam M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty was attempted in an eight-month-old infant with severe aortic valve stenosis. The procedure resulted in a fall in the resting transvalvular systolic pressure gradient from 106 mmHg to 40 mmHg and no aortic regurgitation. Clinical and Doppler echocardiography findings suggest p...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Sánchez GR,Mehta AV,Ewing LL,Brickley SE,Anderson TM,Black IF

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:In 2017, the AHA published revised guidelines for the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease (KD). In the absence of compelling data supporting or refuting the utility of lack of tapering (LT) and perivascular brightness (PB), expert panel consensus removed LT and PB from consideration. We hypothesize that LT and PB ...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Rabinowitz EJ,Rubin LG,Desai K,Hayes DA,Tugertimur A,Kwon EN,Dhanantwari P,Misra N,Stoffels G,Blaufox AD,Mitchell E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1981 through June 1989, 59 children had surgery for a complete atrioventricular (AV) canal defect at Oregon Health Sciences University. We compared the morbidity, mortality, and hemodynamic status of 47 children with and 12 without Down's syndrome through review of operative, clinical, and cardiac catheterization...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Morris CD,Magilke D,Reller M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac rhabdomyoma (CR) is the most common cardiac tumor in newborns. Approximately 75% of cases are associated with tuberous sclerosis complex. Although these tumors usually spontaneously regress after 2 years of age, they can be life-threatening when they obstruct major cardiac inflow or outflow pathways. Everolimu...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Chang JS,Chiou PY,Yao SH,Chou IC,Lin CY

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear cross-sectional area of the muscular fibers from a series of myocardial bridges was analyzed and compared to both the adjacent and underlying myocardial fibers. The series came from 12 hearts of children, ranging in age from 24 h to 2 years, with diverse forms of congenital heart disease, which caused left...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Reig J,Ruiz de Miguel C,Moragas A

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypertension has often been reported in elderly subjects, but is an unusual phenomenon in children. We report the case of a 5-year-old child who presented with features of Williams syndrome (characterized by elfin facies, supravalvar aortic stenosis, and peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis). Repeated blood pres...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Narasimhan C,Alexander T,Krishnaswami S

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrioventricular block has been described in association with cases of long QT syndrome and mortality is increased in this subgroup. We describe an infant with congenital QT prolongation and atrioventricular block with normal cardiac function, leading to the initial diagnosis of long QT syndrome. She subsequently deve...

journal_title：Pediatric cardiology

authors： Walls J,Dipchand A,Sanatani S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00