ConferenceCardiol Young · February 6, 2025
BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI) and fluid overload (FO) are common among neonates who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass, and increase mortality risk. Current diagnostic criteria may delay diagnosis. Thus, there is a need to ...
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Journal ArticleCardiol Young · October 2024
Routine pre-Fontan cardiac catheterization remains standard practice at most centres. However, with advances in non-invasive risk assessment, an invasive haemodynamic assessment may not be necessary for all patients.Using retrospective data from patients u ...
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Journal ArticleCardiovascular engineering and technology · August 2024
PurposrThis study created 3D CFD models of the Norwood procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) using standard angiography and echocardiogram data to investigate the impact of shunt characteristics on pulmonary artery (PA) hemodynamics ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Pharmacol · March 2024
Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI) occurs in approximately 65% of neonates undergoing cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass and contributes to morbidity and mortality. Caffeine may reduce CS-AKI by counteracting adenosine receptor ...
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Journal ArticleCatheter Cardiovasc Interv · November 2023
Pulmonary vein stenosis is poorly tolerated in patients who have undergone Fontan palliation and typically requires surgical or transcatheter intervention. Percutaneous transcatheter approaches to intervention can be technically difficult due to challengin ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Cardiol Rep · September 2023
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The goal of this paper is to review currently available devices for closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) and ventricular septal defects (VSDs). RECENT FINDINGS: Favorable results from the ASSURED trial resulted in FDA approval for the ...
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Journal ArticleCrit Care Explor · May 2023
UNLABELLED: To examine the association between three perioperative urine biomarker concentrations (urine cystatin C [uCysC], urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin [uNGAL], and urine kidney injury molecule 1 [uKIM-1]), and cardiac surgery-associa ...
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Journal ArticleWorld J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg · January 2023
The double switch operation for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CC-TGA) has been associated with high rates of reintervention, including the need for pulmonary valve replacement. Hybrid interventional approaches can avoid bypass ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Thorac Surg · June 2022
BACKGROUND: The Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial demonstrated increased risk of death or heart transplant 1 year after Norwood among subjects randomly assigned to modified Blalock-Taussig shunts compared with right ventricle to pulmonary artery (RV-PA ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biomech · February 2022
The anomalous aortic origin of coronary arteries (AAOCA) is a congenital disease that can lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD) during strenuous physical activity. Despite AAOCA being the second leading cause of SCD among young athletes, the mechanism behind ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr · October 1, 2021
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of electrocardiogram (ECG) findings on the initiation of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) for functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) and to evaluate cardiac outcomes related to low dose T ...
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Journal ArticleWorld J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg · July 2021
BACKGROUND: The use of systemic-to-pulmonary shunts (SPS) in neonates with single ventricle heart defects and ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow (ddPBF) was historically associated with high morbidity and mortality at our center. As a result, we transit ...
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Journal ArticleCardiol Young · May 2021
BACKGROUND: Paediatric cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass induces substantial physiologic changes that contribute to post-operative morbidity and mortality. Fluid overload and oedema are prevalent complications, routinely treated with diuretics. The ...
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Journal ArticleJACC Cardiovasc Interv · February 22, 2021
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess contemporary use of operator directed sedation (ODS) and anesthesiologist care (AC) in the pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory (PCCL), specifically evaluating whether the use of oper ...
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Journal ArticleCardiol Young · December 2020
BACKGROUND: Infants with moderate-to-severe CHD frequently undergo cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in childhood. Morbidity and mortality are highest in those who develop post-operative low cardiac output syndrome. Vasoactive and inotropic medications are ma ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Thorac Surg · October 2020
Systemic right ventricle failure often develops in patients with dextro-transposition of the great arteries who have undergone atrial-level switch procedures. An adult with dextro-transposition of the great arteries with Mustard repair in childhood present ...
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Journal ArticleWorld J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg · July 2020
Obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) involves anomalous drainage of all pulmonary veins to a location other than the left atrium and typically causes significant respiratory symptoms requiring urgent surgical repair. Premature inf ...
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Journal ArticleCatheter Cardiovasc Interv · May 1, 2020
OBJECTIVES: Describe the use of three-dimensional (3D) patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) modeling to better define ductal anatomy to improve preprocedural planning for ductal stent placement. BACKGROUND: Ductal stenting is an alternative to surgical shunting ...
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Journal ArticleAm Heart J · February 2020
For decades, physicians have administered corticosteroids in the perioperative period to infants undergoing heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) to reduce the postoperative systemic inflammatory response to CPB. Some question this practice becau ...
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Journal ArticleCardiol Young · December 2019
INTRODUCTION: The air gap technique (AGT) is an approach to radiation dose optimisation during fluoroscopy where an "air gap" is used in place of an anti-scatter grid to reduce scatter irradiation. The AGT is effective in adults but remains largely unteste ...
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Journal ArticleCirc Cardiovasc Interv · June 2019
Background Postoperative transcatheter interventions (TCIs) are performed after congenital heart surgery to treat residual or recurrent anatomic lesions. We used the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database to evaluate rates of postop ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr · November 2017
OBJECTIVES: To assess the frequency, yield, and cost of echocardiograms meeting "rarely appropriate" criteria. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective, single-center study of pediatric patients presenting with syncope. Patients were categorized according to the approp ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Soc Echocardiogr · July 2017
BACKGROUND: Echocardiography is often used in the evaluation of pediatric chest pain, but the incidence of cardiac pathology is low. In 2014, the American College of Cardiology published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for echocardiography including recomme ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Neurol · November 2015
BACKGROUND: X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy is a rare, cardio-specific form of dystrophinopathy allelic to Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy that results in heart failure without skeletal muscle weakness. PATIENT DESCRIPTION: We describe a previously ...
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