Multicenter Study of the Effect ...
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are being used with increasing frequency in children and young adults. Our aim was to examine the app ...
Epigenetic Regulation of E2F-1- ...
A delicate balance exists between cell growth and cell death. In the context of the adult myocardium, inappropriate or inordinate cell loss through ...
A Juvenile Murine Heart Failure ...
Persistent pressure overload can cause cardiac hypertrophy and progressive heart failure (HF). The authors developed a pressure-overload HF model of ...
Anomalous Origin of the Left Co ...
This study aimed to illustrate the experience of treating children with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCA ...
Gadolinium-Enhanced Three-Dimen ...
Pulmonary stenosis (PS) or pulmonary atresia (PA) is an important component of complex cyanotic congenital heart disease, especially in tetrology of ...
Relationship of Brain Natriuret ...
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a biomarker of cardiovascular disease that is common in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, in ch ...
Comparison of Gastrointestinal ...
This study aimed to compare the incidence of gastrointestinal complications among infants with singleventricle heart defects after three first-stage ...
The Mitochondrial Permeability ...
That apoptosis is mediated by specific pathways has long been established. However, more recent data have begun to suggest that necrosis may in fact ...
General Anesthesia for Children ...
Severe heart failure in children is uncommon. The anesthetic management of children with this condition is challenging. The authors aimed to identif ...
Eisenmenger Ventricular Septal ...
This study aimed to examine the definition and indications for surgery, to elucidate the morphologic substrate of aortic regurgitation, and to extra ...
Usefulness of Fetal Three-Dimen ...
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) occur in 1% of live-born infants and frequently are associated with extracardiac malformations. This study aimed to ...
The Neonatal But Not the Mature ...
The force–frequency relationship (FFR) reflects alterations in intracellular calcium cycling during changing heart rate (HR). Tachycardia-induced he ...
Comparison of Posterolateral Th ...
This study was designed to compare the longterm clinical outcomes and costs between video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and posterolateral thorac ...
2010 Riley Heart Center Symposi ...
Heart failure, a common event in childhood with significant morbidity and mortality, has an impact on both children and adults. In adult medicine, h ...
Disturbance of Glucose Homeosta ...
This study aimed to evaluate the time course of perioperative blood glucose levels of children undergoing cardiac surgery for congenital heart disea ...
Catheter Balloon Adjustment of ...
The study aimed to assess the feasibility and safety of increasing pulmonary artery band (PAB) diameter by catheter-based PAB balloon dilation (PABB ...
An Institutional Approach to In ...
Complete vascular occlusions are rare but potentially lethal. Reports on transcatheter therapy are limited to solitary case reports. The study was c ...
Pulmonary Vascular Resistance a ...
Calculating pulmonary vascular resistance is important in many fields of medicine. Although the influence of hematocrit on calculated resistance has ...
Coding Single-Nucleotide Polymo ...
This study aimed to examine whether coding single-nucleotide polymorphisms (cSNPs) of the interleukin- 1 gene cluster [interleukin-1-alpha (IL1a), I ...
Peroxisome Proliferator Activat ...
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality among patients with diabetes, and heart failure exists even in the absence of coronary diseas ...
Transpulmonary Thermodilution i ...
Measurement of the global end-diastolic volume index (GEDI) by transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) has become a useful technique for measuring pre ...
Outcome of Acute Graft Rejectio ...
We sought to analyze the outcome of hemodynamically significant acute graft rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients from a single-center ...
Feeding Complications in Hypopl ...
Gastrointestinal and feeding complications after the Norwood procedure in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome increases morbidity and morta ...
Cardiac Tamponade in a Child Wi ...
Systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SoJIA) is a multisystem disease characterized by high fever, rash, arthritis, serositis, splenomegaly, ...
Combination of texture analysis ...
Summary Twenty-one excised femurs were studied using (1) a high-resolution digital X-ray device to estimate three textural parameters, (2) dual-ener ...