Peds Cardiology News & Articles

881 Use of Peritoneal Dialysis After Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease in Children Peritoneal Dialysis International, May 29, 2012    Clinical Article

882 The diagnostic value of a single measurement of superior vena cava flow in the first 24 h of life in very preterm infants European Journal of Pediatrics, May 29, 2012

883 Increased alpha1-Antitrypsin Levels in Acute-Phase Kawasaki Disease as Shown by SELDI-TOF MS Analysis Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2012

884 Odd Acoustic Window and Elongated Ventricles: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Absence of the Pericardium Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2012

885 A Rare Case of Left Lung Hypoplasia Associated With Congenital Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm and Ventricular Septal Defect Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2012

886 Congenital Left Ventricular Diverticulum Associated With Congenital Ileo-Jejunal Atresia Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2012

887 The Growing Epidemic of Hypertension Among Children and Adolescents: A Challenging Road Ahead Pediatric Cardiology, May 29, 2012

888 Paediatric follow-up of haemodynamically insignificant congenital cardiac lesions Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, May 25, 2012

889 Antihypertensive Drug Use By Children: Are the Drugs Labeled and Indicated The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, May 24, 2012    Clinical Article

890 Frequency, characteristics, and outcomes of pediatric patients readmitted to the cardiac critical care unit Intensive Care Medicine, May 24, 2012

891 Early Developmental Outcomes following Major Noncardiac and Cardiac Surgery in Term Infants: A Population-Based Study The Journal of Pediatrics, May 23, 2012

892 Premature Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease The Journal of Pediatrics, May 23, 2012

893 Straightened Sternal Wire Causes Iatrogenic Pectus Carinatum After Cardiac Surgery Pediatric Cardiology, May 23, 2012

894 Acquired Right Atrial-to-Left Ventricular Shunt in an Adult Patient After Several Years of a Senning Procedure for D-Transposition of Great Arteries Pediatric Cardiology, May 23, 2012

895 Genetic and Functional Analysis of the NKX2-5 Gene Promoter in Patients With Ventricular Septal Defects Pediatric Cardiology, May 23, 2012

896 Unusually Prominent Chiaris Network Prolapsing Into the Right Ventricle in an Asymptomatic Newborn Pediatric Cardiology, May 23, 2012

897 Isolated Left-Ventricular Apical Hypoplasia Presenting as a Left-Ventricular Mass on Echocardiography Pediatric Cardiology, May 23, 2012

898 Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and cardiac hypertrophy in children with metabolic syndrome Pediatric Nephrology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

899 Accuracy, image quality and radiation dose comparison of high-pitch spiral and sequential acquisition on 128-slice dual-source CT angiography in children with congenital heart disease European Radiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

900 Paediatric cardiac rehabilitation in congenital heart disease: a systematic review Cardiology in the Young, May 22, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

1 Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Children and Adolescents With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 3, 2013

2 Applicability of the modified Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in children with and without heart disease Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, April 15, 2013

3 Commencement of warfarin therapy in children following the Fontan procedure Thrombosis Research, April 17, 2013

4 Treatment of Obesity-Related Hypertension in Children and Adolescents Current Hypertension Reports, April 3, 2013    Review Article

5 Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography, April 5, 2013

6 Modified Blalock Taussig shunt: a not-so-simple palliative procedure European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013    Review Article

7 Percutaneous Intraperitoneal Catheters in Neonates Following Open Heart Surgery Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, April 3, 2013

8 A composite outcome for neonatal cardiac surgery research The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 22, 2013

9 Social impact on families of children with complex congenital heart disease Annals of Saudi Medicine, April 16, 2013    Free full text    Review Article

10 Risk of cancer associated with cardiac catheterization procedures during childhood: a cohort study in France BMC Public Health, March 25, 2013    Free full text

11 The effect of preoperative nutritional status on postoperative outcomes in children undergoing surgery for congenital heart defects in San Francisco (UCSF) and Guatemala City (UNICAR) The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 22, 2013

12 Tissue Doppler Myocardial Velocity Imaging in Infants and Children—a Window into Developmental Changes of Myocardial Mechanics Echocardiography, April 5, 2013    Review Article

13 Phrenic nerve injury after paediatric heart surgery: is aggressive plication of the diaphragm beneficial? European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, March 21, 2013

14 Short-Term Outcome of Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease and Diaphragmatic Hernia Treated With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Annals of Thoracic Surgery, April 12, 2013

15 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

16 Epidemiology and outcome analysis of children with traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to nontraumatic cardiac arrest Pediatric Surgery International, April 15, 2013    Review Article

17 Pulse oximetry home monitoring in infants with single-ventricle physiology and a surgical shunt as the only source of pulmonary blood flow Cardiology in the Young, March 15, 2013

18 Percutaneous Retrograde Recanalization of a Chronic Total Coronary Artery Occlusion in a 7 Year Old Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, April 2, 2013

19 Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device for Bridge to Heart Transplantation in US Children Circulation, April 24, 2013

20 Structural congenital brain disease in congenital heart disease: Results from a fetal MRI program European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, March 22, 2013