CARDIAC SURGERY IN THE NEONATE WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

More than 50% of newborns with congenital heart disease (CHD) are unrecognized at birth; however, the use of echocardiogram (Echo) for diagnosing CHD in newborns with asymptomatic, non-syndromic cardiac murmurs (ANCM), has not been systematically reviewed yet.

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent congenital malformation affecting 1 in 100 newborns. While advances in early diagnosis and postnatal management have increased survival in CHD children, worrying long-term outcomes, particularly neurodevelopmental disability, have emerged as a key[r]

Interestingly, unpredictability—one of the subcon- cepts of uncertainty—was not significantly related to parenting stress and to other subconcepts of uncer- tainty. When a child was first diagnosed, uncertainty was a source of fear, anxiety and stress. Once mothers understand their child’s co[r]

Delayed diagnosis of critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) carries a serious risk of mortality, morbidity, and handicap. As echocardiography is commonly used to diagnose congenital heart disease (CHD), echocardiographic investigations in newborns may be helpful in detecting CCHD earlier and with[r]

5 days, nonspecific rash, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, nonprurulent con- junctivitis, mucous membranous stomatitis and pharyngitis, and joint redness and swelling. Delayed or later desquamation occurs at the joint and peri- anal-diaper skin areas; Beau’s lines (deep grooved lines that[r]

Chapter 036. Edema (Part 6)
Edema of Heart Failure
(See also Chap. 227) The presence of heart disease, as manifested by cardiac enlargement and a gallop rhythm, together with evidence of cardiac failure, such as dyspnea[r]

The purposes of this study are to investigate somatic NKX2-5 mutations in Chinese children with congenital heart disease (CHD) and assess the reliability of somatic mutation detection in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues. The study cohort included frozen and FFPE cardiac tissues as we[r]

Children who have unhealthy lifestyles are predisposed to develop hypertension, dyslipidemia and other complications. The epidemic of obesity is also affecting children with congenital heart disease.

Given their frequency of occurrence in the United States, cancer and heart disease often coexist. For patients requiring open-heart surgery, this raises concern that the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) may cause a transient immunosuppression with the potential to promote the spread and growth of[r]

Importance of sports for the development of children with congenital malformations
Children have an elementary need to move. A child's experiences of perception and movement determine not only its physical and motor development but also crucially influence its emotional, psych[r]

Previous studies have shown a relationship between delirium and depressive symptoms after cardiac surgery with distress personalities linking to negative surgical outcomes. The aim of the present study is to further investigate the association between patients with Type D (distressed) personality wi[r]

Palivizumab prophylaxis for the human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) has been reported to reduce the risk of hospital admissions related to HRSV in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). These children are at high risk of developing severe lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) due to H[r]

Drosophila model is the ability to combine mutant alleles of almost any gene with tissue- specific expression of fluorescently labeled markers. Thus, heart development can be studied in great detail at the organ or even the cellular level, permitting th[r]

Kasra Shaikhrezai 1* , Usman Bashir 3 , Sheena Millar 3 , Julia Anderson 2 , Edward T Brackenbury 1
Abstract
A 40 year-old female, with a history of cardiac surgery for congenital aortic valve stenosis and von Willebrand ’ s dis- ease (VWD) presented with incre[r]

Discussion
Anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions during anesthe- sia are generally caused by neuromuscular blocking agents, some general anesthetics, antibiotics, blood prod- ucts, opioids, latex and rarely by anticoagulant agents such as heparins [3]. Cardiovascular collapse due to ana- phylax[r]

Perioperative cardiac morbidity is one of the major challenges for the anesthetist. The elderly patient population presenting for spinal surgery has substantially increased over the last decade. Consequently, the incidence of spinal surgery [r]

disease that was initially developed for the fi rst edition of this text in 1987. Counseling of the pregnant cardiac patient, as well as general management approaches, were based on this classifi ca- tion [8] . Category I included conditions that, with pr[r]

Abstract
Patients with infective endocarditis (IE) are generally referred to the intensive care unit (ICU) for one or more organ dysfunctions caused by complications of IE. Neurologic events are frequent causes of ICU admission in patients with IE. They can arise throug[r]