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Congenital Heart Disease [PDF]

, 2018
Congenital Heart Disease is a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal workings of the heart. It is one of the most common types of birth defect occurring in 1% of live births and affects up to 9 in every 1,000 babies born in the ...

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Use of hydrocolloid dressing in infants requiring open chest management after cardiac surgery

Surgical Case Reports, 2021
Purpose Sternal splintage is known as an effective maneuver to stabilize hemodynamics during the immediate postoperative period, particularly in very sick infants. On the other hand, its wound management is not always straightforward.
Shinya Yokoyama, Rei Tonomura, Ryohei Fukuba, Kazuhiro Mitani, Hideki Uemura   +4 more
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Staffing, activities, and infrastructure in 96 specialised adult congenital heart disease clinics in Europe. [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Clinical guidelines emphasise the need for specialised adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) programmes. In 2014, the working group on Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) published recommendations on ...
Moons, Philip, Roos-Hesselink, Jolien, Gabriel, Harald, Thomet, C, Gallego, Pastora, Webb, G, Gallego, P, Schwerzmann, Markus, Chessa, M, Thomet, Corina, ESC Working Group on Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease, Moons, P, Budts, W, Budts, Werner, Swan, Lorna, De Backer, Julie, Working Group on Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease, ESC, Giamberti, A, Diller, Gerhard, Roos-Hesselink, J, Webb, Gary, Schwerzmann, M, Giamberti, Alessandro, Eicken, Andreas, Chessa, Massimo, Eicken, A, Diller, G, Swan, L, Backer, J, Gabriel, H, Thomet C, Gabriel H, Swan L, Roos-Hesselink J, Schwerzmann M, Roos - Hesselink, Jolien; id_orcid, Diller G, Eicken A, Moons P, Giamberti A, Webb G, De Backer J, Chessa M, Moons, Philip,, Gallego P, Budts W, ESC Working Group on Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease.   +46 more
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Chylothorax Due to Superior Vena Cava Obstruction in a Patient With Complex Congenital Heart Disease

JACC: Case Reports, 2021
Obstruction of the superior vena cava represents an under-recognized cause of chylothorax in the adult population. Our case report describes the successful conservative management of chylothorax due to bilateral superior vena cava obstruction in an adult
Rosaria Barracano, MD, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, MD, PhD, Michela Palma, MD, PhD, Giacomo Sica, MD, PhD, Assunta Merola, MD, Nunzia Borrelli, MD, Flavia Fusco, MD, Anna Correra, MD, Giovanni Domenico Ciriello, MD, Berardo Sarubbi, MD, PhD   +9 more
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The use of Macitentan in Fontan circulation: a case report

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2017
Background The Fontan circulation, a result of a palliative procedure in patients with single systemic ventricles, is defined by chronically elevated pulmonary vascular resistance.
Polyvios Demetriades, Amir Aziz, Robin Condliffe, Sarah E. Bowater, Paul F. Clift   +4 more
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Single Ventricle Fontan: The Basics for General Cardiologists

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal
Single-ventricle physiology encompasses a heterogeneous spectrum of congenital cardiac malformations in which a single dominant ventricle supports both pulmonary and systemic circulation.
Berardo Sarubbi, Flavia Fusco, Michela Palma, Rosaria Barracano, Giovanni Domenico Ciriello, Nunzia Borrelli, Giancarlo Scognamiglio   +6 more
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Intermittent Levosimendan Administration for Advanced Heart Failure Treatment in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (Levo-ACHD Study)

Medicina
Background and Objective: Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of morbidity in adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD), who may also have limited access to transplant.
Flavia Fusco, Ippolita Altobelli, Vito Casale, Nunzia Borrelli, Giovanni Domenico Ciriello, Rosaria Barracano, Assunta Merola, Nicola Grimaldi, Michela Palma, Giovanni Papaccioli, Anna Correra, Diego Colonna, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, Berardo Sarubbi   +13 more
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Nutrition, dietary recommendations, and supplements for patients with congenital heart disease [PDF]

, 2023
Nutrition is the cornerstone of a healthy life and is crucial for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are prone to nutrition disorders, including abnormalities in body composition such as overweight or ...
LLuch, Amador, Guedes, Paula, Burgos Peláez, Rosa, Rosa Burgos, María Josefa Azpiroz, DOS SUBIRA, LAURA, Amador Lluch, Laura Dos, Lorente, Macarena, Azpiroz, María Josefa, Macarena Lorente, Paula Guedes   +11 more
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Adults with congenital heart disease: the patients' perspective. [PDF]

Over the last 50 years technical and other advances have resulted in more than 90% of children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) surviving and reaching adulthood.
Lyon, Joy E.
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Systemic right ventricle in elderly patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries: Clinical profile, cardiac biomarkers, and echocardiographic parameters

Anatolian Journal of Cardiology, 2020
Objective: The number of patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) surviving to old age is increasing. This study therefore sought to characterize 'geriatric' systemic right ventricle (sRV) in terms of clinical ...
Ewa Kowalik, Anna Kwiatek-Wrzosek, Anna Klisiewicz, Anna Lutynska, Elzbieta Katarzyna Biernacka, Miroslaw Kowalski, Piotr Hoffman   +6 more
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