Methods Twenty-eight pediatric patients with CCHD underwent CEMRA at 3.0T (n=16) or at 1.5T (n=12). Sixteen patients were imaged with gadofosveset; 9 at 3.0T (age 1.00 ± 1.58 months; weight 2.38 ± 1.13 kg) and 7 at 1.5T (age 8.00 ± 7.83 months; weight 5.06 ± 3.09 kg). Twelve patients were imaged with gadopentetate; 7 at 3.0T (age 1.00 ± 1.41 months; weight 3.02 ± 1.59 kg) and 5 at 1.5T (age 6.6...

BACKGROUND Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) is a disorder characterized by abnormal and often profound enteric protein loss. It's relatively uncommon complication of Fontan and other complex congenital heart disease (CCHD) procedures. Because of the complexity and rarity of this disease process, the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of protein-losing enteropathy remain poorly understood, and att...

Özet: Bu çalışmada, Kayseri bölgesinde tarım alanlarında kullanılan insektisitlerden biri olan diazinonun testis dokusuna olan etkilerinin histokimyasal olarak araştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada kullanılan sıçanlar 5 gruba ayrıldı. Birinci deney grubuna 1 gün LD50 dozunun (1250 mg/kg) 1/10’u, ikinci deney grubuna 2 gün LD50 dozunun 1/20’si, üçüncü deney grubuna 4 gün LD50 dozunun 1/40’ı, ...

conclusions use of inhalational anesthesia has increased in adult cardiac surgery and has proved to reduce duration of elective ventilation, decrease icu and hospital los, and mortality. inhalational anesthetics are less well-studied in cchd. in the current study, desflurane was chosen because of its low solubility, decreased recovery time and lack of metabolism or organ system toxicities. alth...

BACKGROUND Placement of a Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt is frequently performed for palliation of cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD). OBJECTIVES Inhalational anesthetics, when used in adult heart surgery, offer advantages of myocardial protection and decrease in use of inotropes, duration of ventilation, ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS).There is little literature, however, in the comp...

Focus on the late preterm birth (LPB) and critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) Data on outcomes of CCHD specifically in late preterm infants are exceedingly scarce. The preterm newborn with associated complex CHD presents many intricate problems to clinicians who take care (neonatologist, cardiologist, cardiothoracic surgeon). Therapies used for the preterm neonate without heart disease fre...

Address correspondence to: Julio Jiménez, MD, P.O. Box 7004, Ponce, PR 007327004. E-mail: [email protected] Objective: HIV felt stigma is a major problem needing to be addressed because of its association with poor treatment adherence, decreases in help-seeking behaviors, high-risk sexual conduct, emotional discomfort, and the reduction of well-being in people with HIV/AIDS (PWHA). The aim of t...

F or nearly 40 years, kidney disease has been defined primarily in terms of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), i.e., kidney failure requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation. Recently, however, the disease has been redefined as chronic kidney disease (CKD), a progressive condition that culminates in ESRD and that often can be effectively treated in its earlier stages; prevention is now a realis...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the trends in survival for infants with critical congenital heart defects (CCHDs) and to examine the potential impact of timing of diagnosis and other prognostic factors on survival. METHODS We performed a retrospective population-based cohort study in infants born with structural congenital heart defects (CHDs) between 1979 and 2005 and ascertained by the Metropolitan A...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have found adverse health effects of acute and chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Air pollution epidemiological studies relying on ground measurements provided by monitoring networks are often limited by sparse and unbalanced spatial distribution of the monitors. Studies have found correlations between satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) and PM2.5...