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BMC Pediatrics, 2020 Background Pediatric patients with genetic disorders have a higher incidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) regardless of their heart defects. Filamin A (FLNA) mutation is recently recognized to be associated with pediatric pulmonary disorders,
Xiaoxian Deng +9 more
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European Journal of Medical Research, 2023 The etiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is complex, especially the investigation of rare pathogeny is difficult. Congenital portosystemic venous shunt (CPSS) is a rare congenital anomaly in which the portal blood completely or partially ...
Yunyan Li +5 more
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Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2022 Although resilience and high quality of life are demonstrated by many individuals with congenital heart disease, a range of significant psychological challenges exists across the life span for this growing patient population.
A. Kovacs +8 more
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Epigenetics in Congenital Heart Disease
Journal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022 Embryonic heart development is an intricate process that mainly involves morphogens, transcription factors, and cardiac genes. The precise spatiotemporal expression of these genes during different developmental stages underlies normal heart development ...
Guanglei Wang +2 more
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Coarctation of the Aorta: Diagnosis and Management
Diagnostics, 2023 Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) accounts for approximately 5–8% of all congenital heart defects. Depending on the severity of the CoA and the presence of associated cardiac lesions, the clinical presentation and age vary.
Sadaf Raza +10 more
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Mental Health Disorders in Children With Congenital Heart Disease
Pediatrics, 2021 In this large cross-sectional study, the risk of mental health disorders is characterized in diverse children and adolescents with varying severity of CHD.
Vincent J. Gonzalez +6 more
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Pulmonary Circulation, 2020 Pulmonary hypertension is a chronic disease developing progressively with high mortality. Pulmonary hypertension patients need persistent medical care; however, limited reports focused on them when there was an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in ...
Hongmei Zhou +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The right ventricle´s (RV) characteristics—thin walls and trabeculation—make it challenging to evaluate extracellular volume (ECV). We aimed to assess the feasibility of RV ECV measurements in congenital heart disease (CHD), and to introduce a novel ECV ...
Nadya Al-Wakeel-Marquard +9 more
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Challenges of congenital heart disease in grown-up patients
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2017 Nowadays, more than 90% of all children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) reach adult life. Although initially considered to be cured, the majority of them continue to need specialised follow-up because they require re-do interventions or are at
Markus Schwerzmann +5 more
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Subcutaneous finger cardioverter-defibrillator in low weight paediatric patients: a case series
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2022 Placement of traditional transvenous implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) system in low-weight children is often difficult because of their vessel size, the elevated risk of lead malfunction and failure, children’s growth and various anatomic ...
Berardo Sarubbi +7 more
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