The diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography alone and the safety of cardiac surgery using this diagnostic approach were retrospectively assessed in 111 children operated for congenital heart defects (CHD) during a 3.5-yr period ending in October 2001. Preoperative diagnosis was compared with the intraoperative findings obtained by surgical inspection. Perioperative death was defined as death wi...

backgroundlife expectancy has increased in congenital heart diseases (chd) patients and the interest has risen considering the quality of life (qol). the study aimed to compare patients and proxy-parents reports on chd children' qol.materials and methodsthis cross-sectional study performed on 165 chd patients aged 2-18 years during 2016 using pediatric quality of life 3.0 (pedsql™ 3.0) inv...

Despite advances in prenatal detection and counselling, congenital heart disease remains the most common type of congenital disease. In the last decades, treatment results in children have shown spectacular improvements, even in the most complex types of congenital heart disease. At present, the overall mortality rate for paediatric congenital heart surgery in the Netherlands is <2 %. The decli...

The incidence of major congenital defects is approximately 2.5% of total births. Congenital heart disease and neural tube defects each account for about onethird of all defects. From several studies in Europe and the United States it is estimated that the incidence of congenital heart disease is about seven cases per 1000 births (Lancet, 1975). As more than one cardiac lesion is sometimes prese...

a secundum atrial septal defect is the most common congenital heart defect. transcatheter treatment of secundum atrial septal defects is a popular and less invasive alternative to surgery. procedural complications may occur in a wide spectrum, particularly device embolus as the most emergent one, but luckily they do not commonly occur in the clinical setting. mortality from adverse events relat...

BACKGROUND Invasive fungal infections due to Candida species constitute an increasing clinical problem. There are no guidelines for the management of candidemia in children undergoing surgical procedures for congenital heart defects (CHD). The aim of the study was to draw attention to the problem of candidemia in children who are operated on due to congenital heart defects. MATERIAL/METHODS W...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate efficacy of one-step and two-step surgery approach in patients with arrhythmias combined with Ebstein's anomaly. METHODS Fifty-three patients with Ebstein's anomaly combined with tachyarrhythmias (58.5% men, 41.5% women, mean age 21.6+/-10.7 years) were operated on. In group A (32 patients), one-step surgical correction (simultaneous intraoperative elimination of arrhyth...

Congenital heart diseases (CHD) often present with recurrent or chronic breathing difficulties, as do chronic airway diseases such as asthma. Both are relatively common, and may sometimes co-exist. However, there is a paucity of literature from developing countries to that effect. We present two children diagnosed with ventricular septal defect, later also found to have clinical features consis...

Background For each congenital heart defect (CHD) knowledge of morphological and functional variations is crucial in order to assess an individual case and initiate specific therapy, if necessary. Specific data are widely lacking. CMR-based values exist only for left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) volumes of children and adults with normal anatomy. Therefore, we sought to provide v...