Alejandro Garbino, Ralph J. van Oort, Sayali S. Dixit, Andrew P. Landstrom, Michael J. Ackerman, and Xander H. T. Wehrens Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Departments of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Medicine, and Pediatrics/Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseas...

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The author has just written a book on the evolution of specialty Pediatric Cardiology over last 50 years [1]. intent this review is to present summary book. Because large amount material, separated into four parts. In first part, transcatheter interventions (balloon angioplasty/valvuloplasty procedures) will be appraised.

Progress in science has always been driven by curiosity. On one side, curiosity is characteristic of the genius and the visionary, who is always thinking ahead of their time, like Leonardo da Vinci. Many of his revolutionary ideas, like the airplane and the submarine, couldn’t be realized only because the materials and the technology available at his time were not advanced enough. But Leonardo ...

While congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias and acquired cardiac diseases are common causes of mortality and morbidity in infants and children, the basic underlying mechanisms of many specific pediatric cardiovascular diseases still remains undetermined. Breakthroughs in molecular genetic technology have just begun to be applied in pediatric cardiology stemming from the use of c...

Naoki Takeshita1*, Yo Kajiyama1, Yuma Morishita1, Toshiyuki Itoi1, Masaaki Yamagishi2, and Tsugutoshi Suzuki3 Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Nephrology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kajii-cho, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan; Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kajii-cho, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kam...

Z-scores are a means of expressing the deviation of a given measurement from the size or age specific population mean. By taking account of growth or age, Z-scores are an excellent means of charting serial measurements in paediatric cardiological practice. They can be applied to echocardiographic measurements, blood pressure and patient growth, and thus may assist in clinical decision-making.

Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar *Email: [email protected] Memories of my early years of establishing cardiology service from scratch in Qatar are still fresh and clear in my mind. Some cases are hard to forget because of the interesting social and human elements surrounding them. One such case was that of an Egyptian girl whose fate brought her to Qatar over 30 years ago ...

Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is an important procedure in pediatric cardiology in terms of evaluating myocardial ischemia, infarction and damage associated with various congenital or acquired heart diseases, such as Kawasaki disease, anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery and complete transposition of the great arteries after arterial switch surgery. This t...

For those caring for the patient with congenital heart disease, the last 50 years of the 20th century was witness to staggering advances in virtually all aspects of pediatric cardiovascular medicine and surgery. The first half of the 20th century was not dormant in this regard. Dr Maude Abbott of Montreal had published her wonderful atlas in 1936 under the auspices of the American Heart Associa...