Height, weight, total body fat, adipocyte size (cellular lipid content), total adipocyte number, and lean body mass were studied in two groups of similar aged children with congenital heart disease. One group was comprised of 19 children cyanotic from infancy. The second group was made up of 16 asymptomatic, acyanotic patients and served as the basis for age and sex adjusted comparisons. Cyanot...

©2010 UpToDate Print | Back Evaluation and initial management of cyanotic heart disease in the newborn Authors Robert L Geggel, MD Laurie B Armsby, MD Section Editors David R Fulton, MD Joseph A Garcia-Prats, MD Deputy Editor Melanie S Kim, MD Last literature review version 18.2: May 2010 | This topic last updated: May 2, 2007 (More) INTRODUCTION — Cyanotic lesions comprise approximately one-th...

The measurement of pulmonary artery pressure and resistance is crucial in the management of older patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease. This is especially important in patients who have had previous palliative surgery or known right ventricular outlet obstruction.' The ability to measure pulmonary artery pressure is often hampered by the presence of significant derangements of cardia...

An investigation of defects of the haemostatic mechanism in 41 children with cyanotic congenital heart disease concluded that such abnormalities were common and normally involved factors synthesised in the liver, that is the vitamin K dependent factors (rothrombin, factors VII and IX) and factor V. No evidence was found of activation of the coagulation or fibrinolytic systems. The defects can b...

Twenty-five patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease were studied. Skiagrams of the skull (posteroanterior and lateral views), pelvis and lumbar spine (posteroanterior and lateral views), upper limb (posteroanterior view only), and x-ray of ankle joint including lower ends of tibia and fibula (posteroanterior and lateral views) were taken. Haemoglobin, packed cell volume, total leucocyte...

BACKGROUND Children with cyanotic congenital heart disease may experience the development of abnormal vessels that become a source of significant morbidity. Abnormal vessel proliferation in these children may take several forms, including systemic-to-pulmonary collateral arteries, systemic-to-pulmonary venous collaterals, systemic venous collateral channels after bidirectional cavopulmonary ana...

important risk is infective etdocarditis, whereas beginning in the 3rd decade, heart failure is the major complication in patients with a sizable left to right shunt . Adult survival with a nonrestrictive patent ductus artenosus is more likely to occur with suprasystemic pulmonary vascular resistance and reversed shunt . Anomalous course of coronary arteries . Widespread use of coronary arterio...

BACKGROUND Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are used in the evaluation of patients with heart disease, yet there is little understanding of the effect of hypoxia on natriuretic peptide secretion. Furthermore, recent data suggest that oxytocin may mediate stretch-induced atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) secretion. METHODS AND RESULTS Ten patients with cyanotic congenital heart defects an...

OBJECTIVE To assess age, gender distribution and relative frequency of congenital heart disease (CHD) in children who underwent palliative or corrective cardiac surgery at Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar. METHODOLOGY This retrospective study was conducted in Department of Cardiac Surgery at Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Peshawar from May 2008 till May 2010. One hundred and twenty three p...