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Association of Adult Congenital Heart Disease With Pregnancy, Maternal, and Neonatal Outcomes

JAMA Network Open, 2019
Key Points Question Do pregnancy, maternal, and neonatal outcomes differ in women with different types of adult congenital heart disease? Findings In this large cross-sectional study of 2114 women with adult congenital heart disease in Canada, maternal ...
K. Ramage, Kirsten Grabowska, C. Silversides, H. Quan, A. Metcalfe   +4 more
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The end-of-life experience for adults with congenital heart disease: Resource utilization, functional decline, and circumstances surrounding death

International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, 2020
Background: Advance care planning is essential for patient-centered care at the end of life, yet little is known about the end-of-life experience for adults with congenital heart disease.
Adam J. Small, Anisha S. Fernando, Weiyi Tan, Daniel Karlin, Jamil A. Aboulhosn   +4 more
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Lost in the system? Transfer to adult congenital heart disease care-Challenges and solutions.

Congenital Heart Disease, 2019
OBJECTIVE Transfer of congenital heart disease care from the pediatric to adult setting has been identified as a priority and is associated with better outcomes.
J. Gerardin, C. Raskind-Hood, Fred H Rodriguez, Trenton Hoffman, A. Kalogeropoulos, C. Hogue, W. Book   +6 more
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Adult congenital heart disease: Past, present and future

Acta paediatrica, 2019
The diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease (CHD), the most common inborn defect, has been a tremendous success story of modern medicine. In the 1950s, survival of children born with CHD was only approximately 15%, whereas nowadays more than
M. Brida, M. Gatzoulis
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension with left to right shunts: When to treat and/or close?

International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined as increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). It can be associated with congenital heart disease (CHD) with the following subtypes: 1) uncorrected left-to-right ...
Michele D'Alto, Emanuele Romeo, Paola Argiento, Andrea Vergara, Eleonora Caiazza, Antonio Orlando, Rosa Franzese, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, Berardo Sarubbi, Konstantinos Dimopoulos   +9 more
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Prevalence and Prognostic Association of a Clinical Diagnosis of Depression in Adult Congenital Heart Disease: Results of the Boston Adult Congenital Heart Disease Biobank

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background In adults with acquired heart disease, depression is common and associated with adverse outcomes. Depression may also be important in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD).
Matthew R. Carazo, Meghan S Kolodziej, E. DeWitt, N. A. Kasparian, J. Newburger, Valeria E. Duarte, Michael N Singh, A. Opotowsky   +7 more
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Adult Congenital Heart Disease in a Nationwide Population 2000–2014: Epidemiological Trends, Arrhythmia, and Standardized Mortality Ratio

Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
Background The adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) population will grow with medical advances, but data are limited. We investigated the epidemiological profile of ACHD in Taiwan, a country with a congenital heart disease program since 1955, population
Mei-Hwan Wu, Chun-Wei Lu, Hui-Chi Chen, Feng-yu Kao, San-Kuei Huang   +4 more
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Sudden cardiac death in adults with congenital heart disease: Lessons to Learn from the ATROPOS registry

International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, 2022
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most frequent causes of death in adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD). Despite the rare frequency of its occurrence, the incident appears often when unexpected, and many affected patients had not ...
Alicia Jeanette Fischer, Ulrike MM. Bauer, Michael Frey, Jens Beudt, Helmut Baumgartner, Gerhard-Paul Diller   +5 more
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Pregnancy in women with left-to-right cardiac shunts: Any risk?

International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, 2021
An unacceptably high incidence of maternal mortality and morbidity, often due to cardiovascular disease, has been recently identified in developed nations with a call to action to improve maternal health and outcomes for both mother and baby.
Marla A. Mendelson
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Incidence and predictors of left atrial appendage thrombus on transesophageal echocardiography before elective cardioversion

Scientific Reports, 2022
Guidelines recommend transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) before cardioversion in thrombogenic arrhythmias when the requirement of ≥ 3 weeks of anticoagulation is not met.
Felix K. Wegner, Robert Radke, Christian Ellermann, Julian Wolfes, Alicia J. Fischer, Helmut Baumgartner, Lars Eckardt, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Stefan Orwat   +8 more
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