ALLMedicine™ Congenital Heart Disease Center

Oct 17th, 2020 - Identify early pregnancy associations of congenital heart disease (CHD) in a multiethnic cohort. This retrospective observational cohort study compared the general obstetric population to women who gave birth at a referral centre in Australia betw...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Social determinants of health (SDH) can substantially impact health outcomes. A systematic review, however, has never been conducted on associations of SDH with congenital heart disease (CHD) outcomes. The aim, therefore, was to conduct such a sys...

Oct 16th, 2020 - High-sensitivity C reactive protein (hs-CRP) has been associated with outcomes in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). However, its prognostic value beyond N-terminal pro B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) or troponin T remains unknown. We s...

Oct 16th, 2020 - Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) may experience anxiety specifically related to their medical condition. This review introduces the concepts of health anxiety and heart-focused anxiety, summarizes what is currently known about heart-focu...

Oct 15th, 2020 - This study evaluated hepatic stiffness by shear wave elastography (SWE) to investigate subclinical hepatic changes in a cohort of congenital biventricular heart disease (BHD). BHD patients and age-matched healthy controls were prospectively recrui...

Oct 4th, 2020 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) collaborated with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Rhythm Society, International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography...

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...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Identify early pregnancy associations of congenital heart disease (CHD) in a multiethnic cohort. This retrospective observational cohort study compared the general obstetric population to women who gave birth at a referral centre in Australia betw...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Social determinants of health (SDH) can substantially impact health outcomes. A systematic review, however, has never been conducted on associations of SDH with congenital heart disease (CHD) outcomes. The aim, therefore, was to conduct such a sys...

Oct 16th, 2020 - High-sensitivity C reactive protein (hs-CRP) has been associated with outcomes in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). However, its prognostic value beyond N-terminal pro B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) or troponin T remains unknown. We s...

Oct 16th, 2020 - Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) may experience anxiety specifically related to their medical condition. This review introduces the concepts of health anxiety and heart-focused anxiety, summarizes what is currently known about heart-focu...

Oct 15th, 2020 - This study evaluated hepatic stiffness by shear wave elastography (SWE) to investigate subclinical hepatic changes in a cohort of congenital biventricular heart disease (BHD). BHD patients and age-matched healthy controls were prospectively recrui...

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.

Jan 10th, 2020 - PHILADELPHIA – In adolescents who have had a Fontan procedure for congenital heart disease, a randomized trial of the phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor udenafil showed that it achieved improved exercise performance but did not lead to significant.

Oct 31st, 2019 - NEW ORLEANS – Single ventricle congenital heart disease (CHD) and worse social determinants of health are associated with more behavior problems and less total competency in children, and this relationship is mediated by disease-related chronic st.

Oct 29th, 2019 - After ransomware attacks or other hacks, hospitals' heart attack mortality rates are higher, speculated to be due to delays in care from stronger passwords and other cybersecurity remediation. (PBS.org) Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibr...

Oct 10th, 2019 - A new study of children who were born with congenital heart disease (CHD) has found that they have increased odds of developing autism spectrum disorder. “To our knowledge, this is the only study in which there has been a comparison between [autis.