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Cardiology - Congenital News & Articles
MDLinx Cardiology – on this page: Articles from over 2,000 of the peer-reviewed medical journals, pre-sorted and ranked by what’s most relevant to your day-to-day practice, and summarized to save you precious time. From vascular disorders and stroke to valvular disorders, coronary artery disease and arrhythmias, our physician editors make sure that all members of your heart health team can be current on the literature in 5 minutes or less every day.
Also on this page: Bonus content exclusive to MDLinx, clinical pearls from The Smartest Cardiologist daily quiz competition and Cardiology Physician Review. Plus, the “must-read” articles related to cardiology, personally chosen by our physician editor, D. Scott Cunningham, MD, PhD.
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Latest (10) Full Text Articles (69) Focus on MI981 Anatomic and Technical Predictors of Stent Malposition During Implantation for Vascular Obstruction in Patients With Congenital and Acquired Heart Disease JACC Cardiovascular Interventions, November 10, 2010
982 Follow-Up After Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Adults With Tetralogy of Fallot: Association Between QRS Duration and Outcome Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, November 9, 2010
983 Interatrial defect and patent ductus arteriosus International Journal of Cardiology, November 5, 2010
984 Contraception in Women With Congenital Heart Disease The American Journal of Cardiology, November 3, 2010
985 Esophageal stethoscope: an old tool with a new role, detection of residual flow during video-assisted thoracoscopic patent ductus arteriosus closure Journal of Pediatric Surgery, November 3, 2010
986 Late Mortality Among Danish Patients With Congenital Heart Defect The American Journal of Cardiology, November 3, 2010
987 Medical predictors for long-term behavioral and emotional outcomes in children and adolescents after invasive treatment of congenital heart disease Journal of Pediatric Surgery, November 2, 2010
988 Cerebral NIRS as a marker of superior vena cava oxygen saturation in neonates with congenital heart disease Paediatric Anaesthesia, November 2, 2010
989 Atrial flutter ablation through the azygous continuation in a patient with inferior vena cava interruption EP Europace, November 1, 2010
990 Atrial septal defects versus ventricular septal defects in BREATHE-5, a placebo-controlled study of pulmonary arterial hypertension related to Eisenmenger's syndrome: A subgroup analysis International Journal of Cardiology, October 29, 2010
991 Imaging Atrial Septal Defects by Real-Time Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography: Step-by-Step Approach Journal of The American Society of Echocardiography, October 28, 2010
992 Morbidity after paediatric cardiac surgery assessed with usage of medicines: a population-based registry study Cardiology in the Young, October 28, 2010
993 Ethics, governance and consent in the UK: implications for research into the longer-term outcomes of congenital heart defects Archives of Diseases in Childhood, October 27, 2010
994 Patent foramen ovale and obstructive sleep apnea: A new association Sleep Medicine Reviews , October 25, 2010
995 Ventricular septal defect in a child with Alport syndrome: a case report BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, October 25, 2010
996 Behavior of Ebstein’s Anomaly: Single-Center Experience and Midterm Follow-Up Cardiology, October 22, 2010
997 Comparison of Zotarolimus-Eluting Stents With Sirolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents for Coronary Revascularization Full Text JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 18, 2010 Clinical Article
998 Temporary Transumbilical Stenting of the Ductus Venosus in Neonates with Obstructed Infradiaphragmatic Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return Pediatric Cardiology, October 18, 2010
999 Pre-procedural planning for percutaneous atrial septal defect closure: Transesophageal echocardiography compared with cardiac computed tomographic angiography Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, October 15, 2010 Clinical Article
1000 Benefit of atrial septal defect closure in adults: impact of age Full Text European Heart Journal, October 15, 2010
Clinical Pearls in Cardiology
- Intracoronary abciximab when compared to intravenous abciximab significantly reduces the risk of death among patients with STEMI undergoing PCI
- Thrombolysis in MI (TIMI) scores between 5-14 on admission place patients at high risk for 30-day mortality and should be transferred to a monitored inpatient unit or CCU
- High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T is superior to contemporary sensitive cardiac troponin I in early diagnosis of non-STEMI and the prediction of MI and mortality among patients with suspected ACS
Highlights in Cardiology
Heart failure risk associated with adiponectin level
As published in Obesity, a J-shaped association between adiponectin level and heart failure exists. The study involved 787 males with heart failure and 787 healthy controls from the Physicians’ Health Study. The relative risk of heart failure from lowest to highest quintile of adiponectin level was 0.74, 0.67, 0.70, and 0.92.
Read the article summaryApo B-48 is a marker for CAD
As published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, fasting serum apo B-48 levels were elevated in patients with Coronary Artery Disease (n=96; 6.9 µg/mL) compared to patients without CAD (n=67; 3.9 µg/mL). Along with other cardiac risk factors, an apo B-48 level > 4.34 µg/mL was predictive of CAD.
Read the article summaryPost-exercise heart rate recovery predicts cardiac autonomic neuropathy in T2DM
As published in Diabetic Medicine, cardiac autonomic neuropathy can be predicted in patients with T2DM and negative exercise echocardiograms based on post-exercise heart rate recovery. Of the 135 study subjects, 27 (20%) had cardiac autonomic neuropathy, the criteria for which included > 2 of 7 autonomic function markers (4 cardiac reflex tests and 3 indices of short-term heart rate variability). The optimal cut-offs for post-exercise heart rate recovery at 1-, 2-, and 3-minutes were < 28, < 50, and < 52 beats per minute, respectively.
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Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Improved early postoperative outcome for extracardiac Fontan operation without cardiopulmonary bypass: a single-centre experience European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 18, 2013
2 Pulmonary Venous Flow Index as a Predictor of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Variability in Congenital Heart Disease with Increased Pulmonary Flow: A Comparative Study before and after Oxygen Inhalation Echocardiography, April 2, 2013
3 Arrhythmias in adult congenital heart disease: the year in review Current Opinion in Cardiology, April 15, 2013 Review Article
4 The association of fetal cerebrovascular resistance with early neurodevelopment in single ventricle congenital heart disease American Heart Journal, April 16, 2013
5 Surgery in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Risk Factors for Morbidity and Mortality Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013
6 Transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect using amplatzer ductal occluder Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, April 8, 2013
7 Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale versus Medical Therapy after Cryptogenic Stroke New England Journal of Medicine, March 27, 2013
8 Effect of prostaglandin E1 inhalation on pulmonary hypertension following corrective surgery for congenital heart disease Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, April 17, 2013 Free full text
9 Isthmus-dependent right atrial flutter as the leading cause of atrial tachycardias after surgical atrial septal defect repair International Journal of Cardiology, April 9, 2013
10 Short and long term complications of device closure of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale: Meta-analysis of 28,142 patients from 203 studies Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, February 26, 2013 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article
11 Cardiac pacing in paediatric patients with congenital heart defects: transvenous or epicardial EP Europace, March 11, 2013
12 Reoperative Multivalve Surgery in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013
13 Outcomes of Mechanical Valves in the Pulmonic Position in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Over a 20-Year Period Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013
14 Left ventricular efficiency after ligation of patent ductus arteriosus for premature infants The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, March 12, 2013
15 Asymptomatic Pulmonary Artery Sling: A Rare Congenital Vascular Anomaly Heart, Lung, and Circulation, April 5, 2013
16 Social impact on families of children with complex congenital heart disease Annals of Saudi Medicine, April 16, 2013 Free full text Review Article
17 Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata and cardiac pathology Journal of Medical Genetics, April 26, 2013 Review Article
18 Results for Surgical Closure of Isolated Ventricular Septal Defects in Patients Under One Year of Age Journal of Cardiac Surgery, April 5, 2013
19 Substrates of atrial arrhythmias: Histological insights from patients with congenital heart disease International Journal of Cardiology, April 9, 2013
20 Hospitalizations and Mortality in the United States for Adults With Down Syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease The American Journal of Cardiology, March 27, 2013
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