abstract：:An intact atrial septum places infants with hypoplasia of the left heart into a group with an extremely high rate of mortality. We report a neonate, diagnosed antenatally, who was delivered by Caesarian section in the cardiac theatre, urgently placed onto cardiopulmonary bypass, and who then underwent an atrial septec...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Barker C,Moscuzza F,Anderson D

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noonan's syndrome involves the association of multiple congenital abnormalities, with a variety of cardiac defects. We describe here the association of Noonan's syndrome with multiple pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas and bilateral duplicated renal collecting systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first rep...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Semizel E,Bostan OM,Saglam H

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There exists a population of adults with undiagnosed coronary arterial lesions due to Kawasaki disease occurring before 1967. We report the clinical features in 6 adult males with coronary arterial lesions caused by presumed Kawasaki disease, whose dates of birth ranged from 1945 to 1963. The age of the diagnosed coro...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Tsuda E,Matsuo M,Naito H,Noguchi T,Nonogi H,Echigo S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the efficiency of non-invasive magnetic resonance coronary angiography in detecting coronary arterial lesions in 106 patients, aged from 4 months to 37 years, with a median of 13 years, with Kawasaki disease. Non-contrast enhanced, free-breathing magnetic resonance coronary angiographic studies using both...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Suzuki A,Takemura A,Inaba R,Sonobe T,Tsuchiya K,Korenaga T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of our study was to assess the prevalence and progression, during childhood and adolescence, of dilation of the neo-aortic root, and neo-aortic valvar regurgitation, and to identify risk factors for such dilation and regurgitation, after the arterial switch operation. METHODS:We included all pat...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Marino BS,Wernovsky G,McElhinney DB,Jawad A,Kreb DL,Mantel SF,van der Woerd WL,Robbers-Visser D,Novello R,Gaynor JW,Spray TL,Cohen MS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the feasibility and efficacy of closing large patent arterial duct in infants, using the modified and angled variants of the Amplatzer duct occluder. BACKGROUND:Closure of large patent arterial ducts by inserting devices in sick and underweight infants, particularly those weighing around 5 kilog...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Vijayalakshmi IB,Chitra N,Rajasri R,Vasudevan K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case in which a meandering right pulmonary vein connecting to the left atrium is associated with hypoplasia of the right lung, horseshoe lung, abnormal pulmonary lobation, and abnormal branching of the pulmonary arteries. We discuss its relationship to the so-called scimitar variant, and to the scimitar sy...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Yoo SJ,Al-Otay A,Babyn P

更新日期：2006-06-01 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:Increasing rates of survival have raised the question of medical and psychosocial factors contributing to quality of life of patients with congenital cardiac disease. We investigated the impact of the severity of disease, and social disadvantage, on the quality of life of patients and their primary caregivers...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Goldbeck L,Melches J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female neonate, born at term, presented with complex cardiac anatomy dominated by right isomerism and infra-diaphragmatic totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Surgical repair was performed using circulatory arrest under deep hypothermia. In the postoperative period, the patient could not be weaned off mech...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Kumar S,Ansari J,Weerasena N

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To describe the echocardiographic features, underlying causes, and outcome of fetuses with dilated cardiomyopathy. DESIGN:A retrospective observational study between 1983 and 2003 at a tertiary centre for fetal cardiology. PATIENTS:Affected fetuses were identified using a computerised database. We included...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Sivasankaran S,Sharland GK,Simpson JM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have used the Amplatzer ductal occluder for transcatheter closure of large persistently patent arterial ducts, and used our experience to assess the safety and efficacy of the device in young children and infants. METHODS AND PATIENTS:We used the Amplatzer ductal occluder prospectively in 43 patients wit...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Al-Ata J,Arfi AM,Hussain A,Kouatli AA,Jalal MO

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case where fetal echocardiography identified both complete heart block and ventricular tachycardia. The mother tested positive for anti-Ro antibodies. Prenatal detection of this unusual combination of arrhythmias prompted early postnatal evaluation, which revealed prolongation of the QT interval. Autoimmun...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Duke C,Stuart G,Simpson JM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the current subjective state of health, and the longitudinal course of psychological well-being, in adult patients with congenital cardiac malformations. METHODS:Our study concerns the second follow-up of a cohort of patients with congenital cardiac malformations. We examined 362 consecutive patie...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： van Rijen EH,Utens EM,Roos-Hesselink JW,Meijboom FJ,van Domburg RT,Roelandt JR,Bogers AJ,Verhulst FC

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac involvement is a rare complication of infection by the influenza B virus. It usually presents with ventricular dysfunction, arrhythmias, or both. We report a 13-year-old boy with clinical, electrocardiographic, and laboratory findings of myocardial ischaemia during an otherwise silent acute infection with infl...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Grosse-Wortmann L,Muehler EG

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the volume and range of diagnosis in new patients referred to paediatric cardiac outpatient clinics. METHODS:Data was collected prospectively, using a proforma completed at all outpatient clinics over a period of three months. RESULTS:There were 526 new referrals, representing an increase of almo...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Murugan SJ,Thomson J,Parsons JM,Dickinson DF,Blackburn ME,Gibbs JL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe right ventricular failure complicated a postoperative systemic inflammatory response in a 33-year-old woman after surgical repair of congenital cardiac malformations. Volume loading, and high doses of catecholamines, failed to produce improvement, but treatment with vasopressin improved all haemodynamic paramet...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Vida VL,Mack R,Castañeda AR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-week-old child presented with a cardiac arrest secondary to myocardial ischaemia. Echocardiography demonstrated a single coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva. The coronary artery branched into left and right arteries, with the left artery then coursing anomalously in the tissue plane between th...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Duke C,Rosenthal E,Simpson JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amplatzer septal occluder is an alternative to operative closure of atrial septal defects within the oval fossa. An issue when deploying the device is its distance from the mitral valve. The purpose of this study is to determine how this distance changes with growth of the patient. We identified, through a review ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： English RF,Ettedgui JA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found spontaneous echoes in two teenagers with nephrotic syndrome and profound hypoalbuminemia, both having normal cardiac structure, function and output. The phenomenon disappeared after the level of albumin normalized. In one patient, all spontaneous echoes disappeared following convalescence, the level of albumi...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Hadash A,Braver Y,Lorber A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden death and ventricular tachycardia are known to occur late after correction of tetralogy of Fallot. Abnormal dispersion of the QT interval, ventricular late potentials, and prolongation of the QRS complex, alone or in combination, are useful markers of the risk for such complications. Our present prospective stu...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Balkhi RA,Beghetti M,Friedli B

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenitally corrected transposition is a rare congenital anomaly, with only a few cases diagnosed and reported prenatally even in the largest fetal series. To determine the morphologic features and outcome for the lesion as recognized during fetal life, we reviewed the fetal and postnatal echocardiograms and medical ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Chiappa E,Micheletti A,Sciarrone A,Botta G,Abbruzzese P

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We occluded a large arterial duct in a patient with atrial fibrillation, using an Amplatzer duct occluder, with no residual shunt at the end of the procedure. Follow-up revealed recanalization, which was successfully treated with a 4 mm Amplatzer ASD occluder. It is speculated the reopening of the initially occluded d...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Brockmeier K,Hallscheidt P,Haller C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine styles of coping, that is personal ways of dealing with problems, and social support, or support from the social environment, in a cohort of adults with congenital heart disease. METHODS:We subjected 362 patients with congenital heart disease, aged from 20 to 46 years, belonging to five diagnost...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： van Rijen EH,Utens EM,Roos-Hesselink JW,Meijboom FJ,van Domburg RT,Roelandt JR,Bogers AJ,Verhulst FC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positional cyanosis is an uncommon finding in young patients. We report three infants who presented with positional cyanosis due to a pedunculated tumour in the right heart. Arterial desaturation was the result of right-to-left shunting at the level of the oval foramen caused by obstruction and/or insufficiency of the...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Levitas A,Gross G,Zucker N,Zalzstein E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute injury to a coronary artery was recognized during the surgical construction of the Fontan circulation. Surgical manipulation of the site of injury was not successful in restoring normal myocardial blood flow. A stent was therefore placed intraoperatively under direct vision, with restoration of normal coronar...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Duncan WJ,LeBlanc JG,Human DG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonate with functionally univentricular physiology presents unique challenges to the cardiac team. An integrated approach that applies working knowledge of cardiac anatomy, cardiopulmonary physiology, and basic principles of intensive care is essential to guide management of each individual patient. This requires...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Nelson DP,Schwartz SM,Chang AC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a retrospective case control analysis to evaluate the outcome, and the need for treatment, of problems with atrioventricular conduction occurring during an acute attack of rheumatic fever, assessing the occurrence of second and third atrioventricular block versus first degree block. We reviewed and anal...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Zalzstein E,Maor R,Zucker N,Katz A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our long-term follow-up has revealed that symmetrical development of the breasts is significantly impaired in pre-pubescent female patients subsequent to an anterolateral thoracotomy. Although standard posterolateral and anterolateral right-sided thoracotomies are used for correction of "simple" cardiac lesions such a...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Schreiber C,Bleiziffer S,Lange R

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, three-dimensional imaging has provided new opportunities for visualizing congenital cardiac malformations. We present the initial clinical experience using a recently implemented system, which employs some of new interactive, real-time, techniques. We show how three-dimensional rendering based on magn...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Sørensen TS,Pedersen EM,Hansen OK,Sørensen K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our paper is to assess the prognostic value of balloon occlusion as a test for patients with various types of functionally single ventricle after different palliative surgical procedures who were candidates for further modifications of a cavo-pulmonary operation. In all patients, there were at least two...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Kusa J,Bermúdez-Cañete R,Herraiz I,Bialkowski J,Szkutnik M,Díaz MP,Villagra F,Sanchez PA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with Down's syndrome referred to our Department of Echocardiography for evaluation after an episode of tachyarrhythmia. We diagnosed Ebstein's malformation. As far as we know, this association has been reported previously on only three occasions. We review these previous cases, describe our echocar...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Bauk L,Espinola-Zavaleta N,Muñoz-Castellanos L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To document the echocardiographic features of tetralogy of Fallot during fetal and postnatal life. Correlation of echocardiographic findings with the requirement for early intervention prior to definitive repair. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study. SETTING:A tertiary fetal cardiology unit. PATIENTS:F...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Pepas LP,Savis A,Jones A,Sharland GK,Tulloh RM,Simpson JM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetralogy of Fallot is only rarely associated with aortic valvar disease. We present a child who had uncomplicated repair of tetralogy of Fallot at 16 months of age, and who developed mild aortic stenosis three years later, with mild to moderate aortic incompetence being seen two years subsequent to that event. No aor...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Galea N,Aquilina O,Grech V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, no reference values have been provided for right and left atrial filling in normal children. The aim of our study, therefore, was to characterize measurements of superior caval, hepatic, and pulmonary venous flow using Doppler echocardiography in a large group of normal children to reflect the effects of age,...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Ayabakan C,Ozkutlu S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel technique using an Amplatzer atrial septal occluder to close a defect located in the inferior-posterior portion of the interatrial septum that extended into the mouth of the inferior caval vein. Because of the close relation of the defect to the inferior caval vein, the right atrial disc was opened i...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Peuster M,Reckers J,Fink C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Our aims were to use transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography to assess the morphology of atrial septal defects in children prior to closure, and to compare the three-dimensional echocardiographic data with transcatheter and surgical findings. METHODS AND RESULTS:We used transthoracic three-dimensional ec...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Acar P,Roux D,Dulac Y,Rougé P,Aggoun Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adverse influences arising in fetal life or immediately after birth have a permanent effect on body structure, physiology and metabolism. Evidence is now accumulating that programming of bone growth might be an important contributor to the later risk of osteoporosis. Long-term morbidity and mortality associa...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Rego C,Guerra A,Guardiano M,Esteves P,Pereira J,Aguiar A,Areias JC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innocent murmurs in childhood are common, and often they do not reflect cardiac disease. We have performed a prospective review, by means of a questionnaire, to clarify the parental perception of the innocent murmur identified in their child. Whenever possible, depending on age, we also sought the input of the child. ...

journal_title：Cardiology in the young

authors： Advani N,Menahem S,Wilkinson JL

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00