Gout complicating cyanotic congenital heart disease is infrequently recognized. Its occurrence in blood dyscrasias associated with hyperuricamia is well documented (Gliickmann, 1910; Weber, 1934; Barr et al., 1950; Hickling, 1953). In polycythemia rubra vera, gout occurs in 5 to 9 per cent of patients (Tinney et al., 1945; Videbaek, 1950; Lawrence, 1955) and the complication has been referred t...

Jones, R. W. A., Baumer, J. H., Joseph, M. C., and Shinebourne, E. A. (1976). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 51, 667. Arterial oxygen tension and response to oxygen breathing in differential diagnosis of congenital heart disease in infancy. Arterial oxygen tension was measured from radial artery samples in 276 infants referred for cardiological investigation. Values obtained during air breat...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the renal tubular function in the patients with congenital heart disease using β2-microglobulin. METHODS In this case-control study, based on oxymetry, the patients with congenital heart disease were divided into two groups of cyanotic (n=20) and acyanotic (n=20). Congenital heart disease was diagnosed by echocardiography. Healthy individuals within the...

OBJECTIVES To investigate hypoxia and sleep disordered breathing in infants with congenital heart disease. METHODS Prospective study. In-hospital full polysomnography was performed on 14 infants with congenital heart disease, age 7 +/-1 months, and in 7 normal infants, age 10 +/-2 months. Congenital heart disease infants were classified as acyanotic (n=7) or cyanotic (n=7). RESULTS Nutritio...