abstract：INTRODUCTION:Anomalous origin of one pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare cardiac anomaly in which the pulmonary artery abnormally arises from the ascending aorta. Physiologically, most patients develop signs of cardiac failure due to high flow to both lungs, with systemic or supra-systemic pressures in ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Amir G,Frenkel G,Bruckheimer E,Dagan T,Katz J,Berant M,Vidne B,Birk E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to see whether the open anastomosis technique using vacuum-assisted venous drainage at the time of the Fontan procedure was associated with decreased post-operative pleural effusion. METHODS:We analysed a subgroup of patients with a functional single ventricle who underwent non-fen...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Aeba R,Morita M,Matayoshi T,Yozu R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery from the wrong sinus of Valsalva with interarterial, intramural, and/or intraconal course is a rare congenital anomaly that is associated with a high risk of sudden death in children. The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society established the Registry of Anomalous Aortic Or...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Brothers JA,Gaynor JW,Jacobs JP,Caldarone C,Jegatheeswaran A,Jacobs ML,Anomalous Coronary Artery Working Group.

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, or dysautonomia, is an uncommon disease. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is one of the several types of dysautonomia. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, also known as chronic orthostatic intolerance, is the most common but least severe of the dysautonomic ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Boris JR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-month-old infant presented with fever, dyspnoea, and a murmur. Echocardiography showed a mitral vegetation with significant regurgitation. Mitral valve plasty was performed on day 6, and was polymerase chain reaction positive for Kingella kingae. The cardiac outcome was favourable. This case illustrates a subtle p...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Youssef D,Henaine R,Di Filippo S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of Kawasaki disease in Jilin province of China and explore its clinical features. METHODS:The medical records of children with Kawasaki disease hospitalised in the First Affiliated Hospital of Jilin University and Yanbian University between January, 2000 and...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Piao JH,Jin LH,Lv J,Zhou Y,Jin CJ,Jin ZY

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute rheumatic carditis is still an important cause of cardiac failure in developing countries. B-type natriuretic peptides, especially N-terminal segment of its prohormone are now recognised as essential parts of cardiologic evaluation. Increased plasma concentrations of B-type natriuretic peptide and its ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Cimen O,Oran B,Cimen D,Baysal T,Karaaslan S,Unal E,Başarili K,Büyükbaş S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neonates and infants with congenital and acquired cardiac disease often require placement of central venous lines for extended intravenous therapy. It may be advantageous to avoid the larger venous vessels of the head and neck and lower extremities in order to preserve these for future interventions and ther...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： King DS,da Cruz E,Kaufman J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine early outcomes for pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum undergoing single-ventricle palliation and to determine risk factors for mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study. SETTING:Tertiary paediatric critical care unit. INTERVENTION:Risk factors for mortality were sought fo...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Walsh MA,Asoh K,Van Arsdell GS,Humpl T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-month-old baby was resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation attributed to a concurrent chaotic atrial tachycardia with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He underwent successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of an accessory pathway. Throughout the 4-year follow-up after the procedure, the boy remained free of an...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Ko JK,Kim YH,Park IS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the relations between the P-wave dispersion and diastolic functions in type 1 diabetic children. PATIENTS:A total of 33 diabetic patients without any cardiovascular disease, with a mean age of 12.3 plus or minus 4.2 years, and 29 healthy controls, with a mean age of 1...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Köken R,Demir T,Sen TA,Kundak AA,Oztekin O,Alpay F

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common respiratory syncytial virus has been associated with cardiac involvement, usually tachyarrhythmias and occasionally myocarditis. A child is described who probably developed a complete heart block following respiratory syncytial bronchiolitis. Such an association needs to be considered if the heart is struct...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Menahem S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the duration and dispersion of the P wave in patients after a Senning operation, assessing its value in detecting the risk of atrial tachycardias.We measured the duration and dispersion of the wave in surface 12 lead electrocardiograms obtained from 18 patients with sinus rhythm, having a mean age of 12.8 y...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Ozyilmaz I,Eroğlu AG,Güzeltaş A,Oztunç F,Saltik L,Ozdil M,Bariş S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our experience with 2 patients having Costello syndrome, aged 11 and 36 months, who suffered systolic anterior motion of the aortic leaflet of the mitral valve and obstructive cardiac hypertrophy requiring surgery, comparing their cardiac characteristics to those described previously. We conclude that the ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Kalfa D,Fraisse A,Kreitmann B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnosis, clinical features, management and post-natal follow-up in consecutive fetuses identified with tachycardia. METHODS:We reviewed consecutive fetuses with tachycardia identified in a single tertiary institution between January, 2001, and December, 2008. We considered several options f...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Lulić Jurjević R,Podnar T,Vesel S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Exercise echocardiography assesses exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension. The upper normal limit of right ventricular systolic pressure during exercise is not well established. Our study aims to investigate the response of right ventricular systolic pressure in relation to aerobic capacity. METHODS AND ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Möller T,Peersen K,Pettersen E,Thaulow E,Holmstrøm H,Fredriksen PM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cardiac tumours are rare, such tumours are increasingly being diagnosed with increasing frequency and great accuracy by antenatal ultrasound. Cardiac haemangiomas account for less than one-twentieth of all primary cardiac tumours, with most being diagnosed in the neonatal period. We report 3 instances of succ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Sharma J,Hirata Y,Mosca RS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The supramitral ring is a rare congenital malformation formed by presence of a ridge of connective tissue, usually attached at or above the mitral annulus. The incidence and clinical presentation is highly variable due to difficulty in diagnosis. A review of autopsied congenital heart diseases at our institute over a ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Vaideeswar P,Baldi MM,Warghade S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to determine whether the index of left ventricular mass increases during the acute and subacute phase of Kawasaki disease, and to investigate any relationship between this index and clinical and echocardiographic variables. We performed, therefore, a retrospective study of 66 children with Kawasaki disease...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Yu JJ,Kwak BO,Jeon YH,Park YM,Lee R,Chung S,Bae SH,Pyun BY

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review includes a brief discussion, from the perspective of cardiac surgeons, of the rationale for creation and maintenance of multi-institutional databases of outcomes of congenital heart surgery, together with a history of the evolution of such databases, a description of the current state of the art, and a dis...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Jacobs ML,Jacobs JP,Franklin RC,Mavroudis C,Lacour-Gayet F,Tchervenkov CI,Walters H,Bacha EA,Clarke DR,William Gaynor J,Spray TL,Stellin G,Ebels T,Maruszewski B,Tobota Z,Kurosawa H,Elliott M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interest of professional medical societies in research about outcomes, mixed with the recent accessibility to management of data on the internet, has moved many societies to create national databases or registries for their specialty. In societies with procedure-based specialties such as surgery, these databases w...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Morales DL,McClellan AJ,Jacobs JP

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complication is an event or occurrence that is associated with a disease or a healthcare intervention, is a departure from the desired course of events, and may cause, or be associated with, suboptimal outcome. A complication does not necessarily represent a breech in the standard of care that constitutes medical ne...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Dickerson H,Cooper DS,Checchia PA,Nelson DP

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature has scant documentation of the relationship between the important founders of paediatric cardiology, Maude Abbott and Helen Taussig. Recently discovered entries in the diaries kept by Maude Abbott provide evidence for a close connection between them. Further evidence suggests that their association was ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Evans WN

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a great need for echocardiographic criterions for accurate diagnosis of carditis in acute rheumatic fever. AIM:To test the efficacy of proposed echocardiographic criterions for the diagnosis of carditis. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We studied 333 patients suspected of having acute rheumatic fever, under...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Vijayalakshmi IB,Vishnuprabhu RO,Chitra N,Rajasri R,Anuradha TV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To the best of our knowledge, normal limits of heart rate with respect to gender, and as established using 24-hour ambulatory Holter electrocardiography, have yet to be published for the entire age range of children and adolescents. OBJECTIVES:To establish the normal limits for heart rate in newborns, infan...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Salameh A,Gebauer RA,Grollmuss O,Vít P,Reich O,Janousek J

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:The persistence of so-called spongy myocardium was first reported in humans in the 1960s. Subsequently, a few reports described the condition, utilizing inconsistent facts and terminology. In 1990 the first report appeared using the term "noncompaction", and detailed its clinical implications. Following this report, m...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Lurie PR

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is accepted treatment to give vasopressin to adults in postcardiotomy shock, but such use in children is controversial. Cardiopulmonary bypass is presumed to attenuate the normal endogenous vasopressin response to shock. We hypothesized that levels of vasopressin in children are altered by bypass, and tha...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Morrison WE,Simone S,Conway D,Tumulty J,Johnson C,Cardarelli M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The policy of early repair of patients with tetralogy of Fallot, irrespective of age, as opposed to initial palliation with a shunt, remains controversial. The aim of our study was to analyze the midterm outcome of primary early correction of tetralogy of Fallot. METHODS:Between 1996 and 2005, a total of 61 ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Kantorova A,Zbieranek K,Sauer H,Lilje C,Haun C,Hraska V

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to investigate the change in diameter of holes within the oval fossa, and the role of aneurismal formation in reducing the size of the hole, in patients diagnosed during infancy with isolated defects in the floor of the fossa. PATIENTS:In a retrospective study, we included 100 patients diagnosed ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Demir T,Oztunç F,Eroğlu AG,Saltik L,Ahunbay G,Kutluğ S,Güzeltaş A,Altun G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arterial switch operation has become the preferred procedure for surgical management of transposition, defined on the basis of concordant atrioventricular and discordant ventriculo-arterial connections. We conducted a retrospective evaluation of our experience in 61 infants with this segmental combination, seen fr...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Wheeler DS,Dent CL,Manning PB,Nelson DP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to use techniques of decision analysis to compare values or preferences for balloon angioplasty versus surgery for treatment of aortic coarctation in children. BACKGROUND:Balloon angioplasty and surgery for aortic coarctation have a differing spectrum and prevalence of outcomes and complications, m...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Wong D,Benson LN,Van Arsdell GS,Karamlou T,McCrindle BW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partially anomalous pulmonary venous connection of a solitary pulmonary vein in the setting of an intact atrial septum is often subclinical, and the indications for surgical repair are controversial. Here we describe a patient who developed a significant shunt over a period of 10-years. Flow through the anomalously co...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Koh M,Uemura H,Kagisaki K

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 3 siblings with muscular ventricular septal defects, two requiring surgical closure. One of their offspring had a rare congenital aneurysm of the muscular ventricular septum, also requiring surgery. Another had a small muscular ventricular septal defect which closed spontaneously. Their father had echocard...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Nicolae MI,Summers KM,Radford DJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient in whom a cavopulmonary anastomosis had been constructed, along with repair of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Left-sided pulmonary venous obstruction led to redistribution of the flow to the right lung. The reversal of flow in the left pulmonary artery was accentuated by flow through collater...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Grosse-Wortmann L,Hamilton R,Yoo SJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our aim was to review the outcome of ligation of the persistently patent arterial duct in neonates as performed outside a paediatric cardiothoracic centre by an outreach surgical team. METHODS:A retrospective observational study of all ligations of the persistently patent arterial duct performed in Cambridge betwe...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Sivakumar S,Lee L,Tillett A,Wells F,Dunning J,Kelsall AW

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporary percutaneous epicardial pacing wires are routinely placed in children following cardiac surgery. There is uncertainty in clinical practice about the optimum timing for their removal, and practice varies widely both within and between different institutions. AIM:The aim of our study was to describe...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Jowett V,Hayes N,Sridharan S,Rees P,Macrae D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent patency of the arterial duct represents one of the most common lesions in the field of congenital cardiac disease. The strategies for management continue to evolve. In this review, we focus on management beyond the neonatal period. We review the temporal evolution of strategies for management, illustrate th...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Giroud JM,Jacobs JP

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Professionals working in the arena of health care face a variety of challenges as their careers evolve and develop. In this review, we analyze the role of mentorship, learning curves, and balance in overcoming challenges that all such professionals are likely to encounter. These challenges can exist both in profession...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Cohen MS,Jacobs JP,Quintessenza JA,Chai PJ,Lindberg HL,Dickey J,Ungerleider RM

更新日期：2007-09-01 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