Tricuspid Valve Repair in Hypop ...
Tricuspid valve regurgitation (TR) remains an obstacle for staged palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Because previous results fro ...
Use of 320-Detector Computed To ...
Pediatric patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) face a lifetime of treatment with interventional therapeutic and palliative procedure ...
Cardiomyocyte Death: Insights f ...
Cardiomyocytes can die via necrosis, apoptosis, and autophagy. Although the molecular signals and pathways underlying these processes have been well ...
The 30-Year Outcome for Patient ...
This study determined the long-term outcome for patients after myocardial infarction (MI) due to Kawasaki disease (KD). Retrospective analysis was p ...
Cardiac Troponin T in Children ...
The existence of cardiac damage in active rheumatic carditis patients is unknown, especially in those without pericarditis. The aim of this study wa ...
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension ...
The morphology of the large intrapulmonary arteries (PAs) in pulmonary hypertension (PH) has received limited attention. Dilation, pruning, abrupt t ...
Common Atrium and Pulmonary Vas ...
This report describes a case series of six patients with congenital common atrium who developed pulmonary vascular disease. Three developed early pu ...
Utility of Free-Breathing, Whol ...
The incidence of coronary anomalies is increased in congenital heart disease (CHD). Whole-heart magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been proposed a ...
Autophagy in Cardiac Plasticity ...
The heart is a highly plastic organ. In response to the physiological stress of normal life, as well as the pathological stress of disease, the myoc ...
Significant Increase in Clopido ...
The primary aim of this study was to describe the use of the antiplatelet agent clopidogrel in pediatric tertiary care hospitals and to evaluate how ...
Brain Maturity and Brain Injury ...
Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. The aim of this work was to assess brain matu ...
Predictors of ECMO Support in I ...
The development of tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy (TIC) is related to the rate and duration of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Infants may b ...
Reproducibility of Oxygen Satur ...
Patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are at risk for multiple complications and require close follow-up. We investigated the ...
Histopathologic Evaluation of P ...
The aim of this study was to determine the histopathology of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in-stent stenosis after hybrid stage I palliation. The h ...
Is Autophagy in Response to Isc ...
Autophagy is a catabolic process that degrades long-lived proteins and damaged organelles by sequestering them into double membrane structures terme ...
Right Ventricle and Tricuspid V ...
This study aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes including hemodynamics, right ventricle (RV) function, and tricuspid valve (TV) function in patients ...
Electrophysiologic Studies and ...
Ectopic atrial tachycardia (EAT) often resists medical therapy, making radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) the preferred treatment. This study r ...
Use of Near-Infrared Spectrosco ...
We evaluated whether near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurement from the flank correlates with renal vein saturation in children undergoing cardi ...
Validation of Cardiac Output Me ...
Novel COstatus system (Transonic Systems, Inc., NY), based on ultrasound dilution (UD), works off in situ arterial and central venous catheters in p ...
Left-Ventricular Noncompaction ...
Left-ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is an echocardiographic finding of increasing frequency in pediatrics; however, predictors of outcomes have be ...
Bnip3 as a Dual Regulator of Mi ...
The Bcl-2 adenovirus E1B 19 kDa-interacting protein 3 (Bnip3) is a pro-apoptotic BH3-only protein associated with the pathogenesis of many diseases, ...
Early Echocardiographic Finding ...
Heart complications are among the serious problems of patients with b-thalassemia intermedia. This study aimed to evaluate myocardial function in th ...
Antiplatelet Versus Anticoagula ...
The benefits of prophylactic anticoagulation or antiplatelet therapy for patients undergoing extracardiac conduit (ECC) Fontan procedure still are a ...
Nonfluoroscopic and Radiation-L ...
The purpose of this study was to report the feasibility and procedural technique of minimal or no fluoroscopy in the ablation of ventricular arrhyth ...
The Outcome of Open Heart Surge ...
Although the outcome of neonatal cardiac surgery has dramatically improved, low body weight (LBW) is still considered an important risk for open hea ...