Peds Cardiology News & Articles

1 Dysphagia in Infants After Open Heart Procedures American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, May 22, 2013    Review Article

2 Currently, children with congenital heart disease are not limited in their submaximal exercise performance European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 22, 2013    Clinical Article

3 Early Oxygenation and Ventilation Measurements After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest: Lack of Association With Outcome Critical Care Medicine, May 21, 2013    Clinical Article

4 Preventing congenital neonatal heart block in offspring of mothers with anti-SSA/Ro and SSB/La antibodies: A review of published literature and registered clinical trials Autoimmunity Reviews, May 21, 2013    Review Article

5 The impact of mechanical circulatory support on outcomes in paediatric heart transplantation European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 21, 2013    Review Article

6 Clinical characteristics and causes of chest pain in 380 children referred to a paediatric cardiology unit Cardiology in the Young, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

7 Cardiac findings and long-term thromboembolic outcomes following pulmonary embolism in children: a combined retrospective-prospective inception cohort study Cardiology in the Young, May 16, 2013    Clinical Article

8 Abdominal Coarctation and Associated Comorbidities in Children Congenital Heart Disease, May 15, 2013    Review Article

9 The Multicenter Pediatric and Adult Congenital EP Quality (MAP-IT) Initiative—Rationale and Design: Report from the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society's MAP-IT Taskforce Congenital Heart Disease, May 15, 2013    Clinical Article

10 Cardioprotective effect of remote ischemic postconditioning on children undergoing cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial Paediatric Anaesthesia, May 14, 2013    Clinical Article

11 Intraventricular and intrathecal colistin as the last therapeutic resort for the treatment of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii ventriculitis and meningitis: a literature review International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, May 14, 2013    Review Article    Clinical Article

12 Absolute height-specific thresholds to identify elevated blood pressure in children Journal of Hypertension, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

13 Effects of Landiolol Hydrochloride on Intractable Tachyarrhythmia After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

14 Bridge to Transplant With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Followed by HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device in a Child Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 13, 2013

15 Balloon Valvuloplasty Through the Right Ventricle: Another Treatment of Pulmonary Atresia With Intact Ventricular Septum Annals of Thoracic Surgery, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

16 Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Intractable Ventricular Tachycardia in an Infant Following Arterial Switch Operation Congenital Heart Disease, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

17 Pulmonary Vein Stenosis with Down Syndrome: A Rare and Frequently Fatal Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension in Infants and Children Congenital Heart Disease, May 13, 2013    Review Article

18 The Use of the RESPeRATE Device to Lower Blood Pressure in Inner City Obese Adolescents and Children: A Pilot Feasibility Study High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention, May 13, 2013    Clinical Article

19 Assessment of Modified Ultrafiltration Hemodynamic Impact by Pressure Recording Analytical Method During Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Pediatric Critical Care, May 10, 2013    Clinical Article

20 The impact of mechanical circulatory support on outcomes in paediatric heart transplantation European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, May 10, 2013    Clinical Article

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