during a period of four years between june, is, 1988 to june, is, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (chf) were admitted to the pediatric department of taleghani general hospital. during the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and chf was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. congenital heart disease (cho) was t...

Recent advances in the surgical treatment of congenital disorders of the heart (1 to 4) have increased the importance of accurate diagnosis. Physical and x-ray signs are not easily understood or interpreted, partly because there is relatively little systematic knowledge of the dynamics of the circulation in patients with congenital heart lesions. In the past it has been difficult to acquire suc...

BACKGROUND Some infants with congenital heart disease are at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest. To better foresee cardiac arrest in infants with congenital heart disease, it might be useful to continuously assess end-organ perfusion. Near-infrared spectroscopy is a non-invasive method to continuously assess multisite regional tissue oxygen saturation. CASE PRESENTATION We report on two infan...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is a growing public health problem in Africa. The extent of heart disease in Cameroon remains largely unknown. This study aimed at reporting the etiology of cardiac disease in a cardiologic clinic situated in a semi-urban area in the West region of Cameroon. METHODS This is an analysis of echocardiographic diagnosis of cardiac disease done between July 2008 a...

An analysis was done of available data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia, on the type of congenital abnormality contributing to death, to determine whether progress in health care over recent years was associated with any decline in mortality from congenital abnormality. A significant decline in death due to congenital abnormality was observed between 1991 and 1996. This was attributab...

The well-recognized association of congenital cardiac disease with asplenia has been termed "bilateral right-sidedness" or dextro-isomerism, since the spleen is absent, the liver is symmetrical, and each lung has three lobes and an epiarterial bronchus. In a study of pathological material from 12 patients with congenital cardiac disease associated with multiple spleens (as contrasted to accesso...

Cardiac disease is emerging as the most important indirect cause if maternal death globally.1 Cardiac conditions can be pre-existing (e.g. rheumatic or congenital heart disease) and unmasked by increased volume load in pregnancy, or can be caused by pregnancy [e.g. hypertensive disorders or peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM)].2,3 Physicians are therefore increasingly faced with providing adequate...

Abstract Substantial progress has been made in the standardization of nomenclature for paediatric and congenital cardiac care. In 1936, Maude Abbott published her Atlas Congenital Cardiac Disease, which was first formal attempt to classify heart disease. The International Paediatric Code ( IPCCC ) is now utilized worldwide most recently become component Eleventh Revision Classification Diseases...