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Arterial ischemic stroke (AIS) in adults is considered a serious health threat and requires urgent medical treatment. Prompt diagnosis allows the therapeutic option of thrombolysis within the time window of 3 to 6 hours after first symptoms. Alternatively, early anti-platelet therapy is effective in improving the outcome after stroke. The incidence of pediatric AIS range from 2 to 5 per 100 000...

Corresponding author: Piotr Bienias Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology Medical University of Warsaw 4 Lindleya St 02-005 Warsaw, Poland Phone: +48 604 405 365 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Neurology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 3 Department of Pediatric Cardiology...

OBJECTIVE To verify the pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic characteristics in Ribeirão Preto (RP) city, emphasizing reasons for referral, definitive diagnosis and outcome through analysis of patients seen in 3 distinct settings. METHODS In 1996, 1,365 consecutive patients, aged 1 month to 14 years were seen: G1 (n = 562), public pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic; G2 (n = 420), privat...

We describe a simplified method for interpreting a pediatric electrocardiogram (EKG). The method uses 4 steps and requires only a few memorized rules, and it can aid health care providers who do not have immediate access to pediatric cardiology services. Most pediatric EKGs are normal. However, both abnormal and normal EKGs should be sent to a pediatric cardiologist for later, confirmatory inte...

It is difficult to date the start of interest in the clinical importance of congenital anomalies of the heart. Sporadic reports certainly appeared from autopsy and dissecting rooms from the seventeenth century onwards. By the eighteenth century, that most entrepreneurial of centuries, the basics of British cardiology were being laid down. Stephen Hales' physiologic researches were running in pa...

Проблема сердечно-сосудистых заболеваний на протяжении последних трех десятилетий в мире остается одной из наиболее актуальных для здравоохранения.

Introduction Pediatric cardiology was established as a subspecialty of the American Board of Pediatrics and began certification in 1951. Although the field initially comprised cardiologists with both internal medicine and pediatric training, the paths of adult and pediatric cardiology have diverged until presently there is very little overlap of interest and expertise in the areas of noninvasiv...