BACKGROUND The use of new imaging techniques has contributed significantly to earlier diagnosis and treatment of cardiac tumors. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to analyze data from children with cardiac tumors in terms of clinical presentation, the role of noninvasive diagnostic procedures and the long-term outcome. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data analyzed retrospectively concerned 30 ch...

AIM In an effort to help alleviate the lack of an adequate pediatric cardiac surgical service that existed in Croatia following 1991 the International Childrens Heart Foundation (ICHF) was asked to provide the necessary surgery. Initially, this project was undertaken as a humanitarian program to provide pediatric cardiac operations. After 5 years, the Republic of Croatia financially sponsored t...

Why is heart failure in children important? If we just consider the number of individuals affected, adult heart failure is clearly a more compelling public health problem. However, the relatively small numbers belie the overall economic and social impact of pediatric heart failure. When a child is admitted to the hospital for heart failure, the costs are considerably higher for children than ad...

OBJECTIVES To assess the incidence of and risks for congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, pericardial disease, and valvular abnormalities among adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING 26 institutions that participated in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. PARTICIPANTS 14,358 five year survivors of cancer diagnosed under ...

Why is heart failure in children important? If we just consider the number of individuals affected, adult heart failure is clearly a more compelling public health problem. However, the relatively small numbers belie the overall economic and social impact of pediatric heart failure. When a child is admitted to the hospital for heart failure, the costs are considerably higher for children than ad...

OBJECTIVES In the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure trial, surgical ventricular reconstruction plus coronary artery bypass surgery was not associated with a reduction in the rate of death or cardiac hospitalization compared with bypass alone. We hypothesized that the absence of viable myocardium identifies patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction who ha...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: regular exercise has been associated with improved quality of life (qol) in patients with heart failure (hf). however, less is known on the theoretical framework, depicting how educational intervention on psychological, social, and cognitive variables affects physical activity (pa). the purpose of this study is to assess the effectivenes...

No doubt surgical research has paved the way to curative treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Long before the idea of catheter ablation was born, accessory atrioventricular pathways were interrupted by surgical knives, ventricular tachycardia was successfully treated by endocardial resection or scar circumcision, and even the first successful approaches to cure atrioventricular nodal re-entrant ta...

BACKGROUND Advances in surgical and medical management have greatly improved long-term survival rates in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). As these patients reach adulthood, myocardial dysfunction can occur, leading to cardiac transplantation. METHODS AND RESULTS We reviewed the pretransplantation and posttransplantation courses of 24 patients >18 years old (mean age, 26 years; ra...

Many patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery have a high risk of perioperative cardiovascular complications. Several studies have identified variables that are associated with this increased perioperative cardiovascular risk, 3 including arrhythmias, heart failure, recent myocardial infarction, and ischaemic heart disease. Aortic stenosis (AS) is not always included in cardiac risk predic...