ALLMedicine Congenital Heart Disease Center

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Patients with congenital heart disease have unique pacing challenges and often require epicardial systems. High pacing threshold is one of the major factors that decrease these systems' durability. Sometimes surgical re-intervention or lead replac...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Nutrition therapies in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is crucial, but energy and protein requirements remain undefined. We assessed energy and protein requirements, with nitrogen kinetics and clinic...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Sudden cardiac death (SCD) accounts for up to 25% of deaths in the adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) population. Current guidelines for defibrillator implantation are either extrapolated from acquired cardiac disease or are based upon single l...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) is often elevated in patients with right-sided congenital heart disease (CHD), raising the possibility of coexisting left-heart disease, but pressure-volume relationships in the left and right sides of the he...

Jun 2nd, 2020 - Cardiac disease is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the United Kingdom. Major causes of cardiac death in pregnant women include cardiomyopathies, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, and aortic dissection. Uncorrected congenita...

Jan 10th, 2020 - ACC/AHA/ASE/HRS/ISACHD/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SOPE 2020 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging During the Follow-Up Care of Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee...

Aug 13th, 2019 - The prevalence and effects of cigarette smoking and cannabis use in persons with congenital heart disease (CHD) are poorly understood. We (1) described the prevalence of cigarette smoking, cannabis consumption, and co-use in adults with CHD; (2) i...

Jan 31st, 2019 - Since its introduction nearly four decades ago, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has witnessed a remarkable evolution. The important strides made in improving TEE technology – including development of multiplane phased array transducers, mat...

Dec 27th, 2018 - 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines.|2018|Stout KK,Daniels CJ,Ab...

Sep 30th, 2018 - Girls and women with Turner syndrome face a lifelong struggle with both congenital heart disease and acquired cardiovascular conditions. Bicuspid aortic valve is common, and many have left-sided heart obstructive disease of varying severity, from.

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Patients with congenital heart disease have unique pacing challenges and often require epicardial systems. High pacing threshold is one of the major factors that decrease these systems' durability. Sometimes surgical re-intervention or lead replac...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Nutrition therapies in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is crucial, but energy and protein requirements remain undefined. We assessed energy and protein requirements, with nitrogen kinetics and clinic...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Sudden cardiac death (SCD) accounts for up to 25% of deaths in the adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) population. Current guidelines for defibrillator implantation are either extrapolated from acquired cardiac disease or are based upon single l...

Jun 3rd, 2020 - Pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) is often elevated in patients with right-sided congenital heart disease (CHD), raising the possibility of coexisting left-heart disease, but pressure-volume relationships in the left and right sides of the he...

Jun 2nd, 2020 - Cardiac disease is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the United Kingdom. Major causes of cardiac death in pregnant women include cardiomyopathies, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, and aortic dissection. Uncorrected congenita...

May 19th, 2020 - Children with congenital heart disease exposed to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac procedures had a cancer risk more than triple that of pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients without such exposures, according to a large Canadia...

Mar 25th, 2020 - The test-driven world of cardiovascular medicine is rapidly shifting to remote hands-off telemedicine to keep patients and their physicians safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr.

Mar 23rd, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The test-driven world of cardiovascular medicine is rapidly shifting to remote hands-off telemedicine to keep patients and their physicians safe d...

Feb 26th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Unlike current fixed prosthetic valves for children with congenital heart disease, an experimental geometrically adaptable heart valve replacement may allow them to reach adulthood with a single valve, according to prec...

Jan 27th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A deep-learning-based analysis of chest radiographs accurately predicts high pulmonary-to-systemic-flow ratios in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), researchers in Japan report. "This deep learning-based syst...