Thrombotic events are very unusual in neonatal period. This congenital anomaly may be caused by certain risk factors such as polycythemia, perinatal asphyxia, septicemia, maternal diabetes, dehydration, and low cardiac output, or it may occur upon catheterization of central lines. A 20-day-old neonate was referred to our ward with primary signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCMP). Echocardiog...

The authors present a case of echocardiographic diagnosis of a rare congenital cardiovascular anomaly in the form of mixed partial anomalous pulmonary veins connection in a 10-year-old girl with Turner syndrome and congenital mild stenosis of insufficient bicuspid aortic valve, made while diagnosing the causes of intestinal tract bleeding. The article presents various diagnostic difficulties le...

We report on a patient with a partial deletion on the short arm of chromosome 18 (del 18p), who presented with dysmorphic features and delayed developmental milestones as well as with a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and pulmonary valve stenosis (PS). Several forms of congenital heart disease (CHD) are found in about 10% of patients with del (18p), but coexisting PDA and PS have not been report...

C ongenital cardiac defects involving the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) require initial surgical interventions as early as the neonatal period. These defects may include severe pulmonic valve stenosis, pulmonary atresia with or without ventricular septal defect, tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, and truncus arteriosus. In addition, congenital aortic valve defect...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To identify the incidence of congenital cardiac abnormalities in patients who had scoliosis and underwent surgical treatment for scoliosis. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Congenital and idiopathic scoliosis (IS) are associated with cardiac abnormalities. We sought to establish and compare the incidence of congenital cardiac abnormalities in patients with id...

It has frequently been stated that congenital aortic valve stenosis cannot be distinguished with any confidence from discrete subvalvar aortic stenosis on clinical grounds, and that their separation rests on the results of hmmodynamic investigation and angiocardiography (Nadas, 1957; Ongley et al., 1958; Dotter et al., 1961; Braunwald et al., 1963; Engle and Ehlers, 1964). Our experience has le...

Severe congenital aortic stenosis (CAS) often requires treatment in the early stages of life. Initial treatment is surgical commissurotomy or balloon valvuloplasty. Sometimes these approaches lead to aortic regurgitation. Once it occurs the only solution is valve replacement with mechanical prostheses or pulmonary autograft. Mechanical prostheses require anticoagulation and have a significant i...

Fetal in situ cardiovascular and bronchial morphologies were studied in rats with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve to clarify the prenatal pathology of this complex. There were 42 fetal rats with this complex among 300 fetuses treated with N,N'-bis-(dichloroacetyl)-1,8-octamethylenediamine (bis-diamine) (200 mg) on the 10th day of pregnancy. After undergoing rapid whole-body freez...

BACKGROUND Surgical and transcatheter bioprosthetic valves (BPVs) in the pulmonary position in patients with congenital heart disease may ultimately fail and undergo transcatheter reintervention. Angiographic assessment of the mechanism of BPV failure has not been previously described. AIMS The aim of this study was to determine the mode of BPV failure (stenosis/regurgitation) requiring trans...