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A “long-standing” malpositioned pacing lead. Long-term follow-up after extraction

open access: yesMonaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2018
Transvenous pacemaker (PM) catheters can be unintentionally placed in the left ventricle (LV) during the implantation procedure. An 8-year-old girl was discovered with a malpositioned pm wire, seven years after the implant.
Berardo Sarubbi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chylothorax Due to Superior Vena Cava Obstruction in a Patient With Complex Congenital Heart Disease

open access: yesJACC: 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   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-assembling human heart organoids for the modeling of cardiac development and congenital heart disease

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Congenital heart defects constitute the most common human birth defect, however understanding of how these disorders originate is limited by our ability to model the human heart accurately in vitro.
Yonatan R. Lewis-Israeli   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental Exposures and Congenital Heart Disease.

open access: yesPediatrics, 2021
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital abnormality worldwide, affecting 8 to 12 infants per 1000 births globally and causing >40% of prenatal deaths. However, its causes remain mainly unknown, with only up to 15% of CHD cases having
Rebekah Boyd   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesSurgical 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D printing is a transformative technology in congenital heart disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Survival in congenital heart disease has steadily improved since 1938, when Dr. Robert Gross successfully ligated for the first time a patent ductus arteriosus in a 7-year-old child.
Anwar   +117 more
core   +3 more sources

Discontinuity of Cardiac Follow‐Up in Young People With Congenital Heart Disease Transitioning to Adulthood: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background The majority of people born with congenital heart disease require lifelong cardiac follow‐up. However, discontinuity of care is a recognized problem and appears to increase around the transition to adulthood.
P. Moons   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Medical Genetic Counseling Of Women With Congenital Heart Diseases Of Fetus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Aim of the work. Determine the effectiveness of prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects in the fetus and the informativeness of different markers used in the medical-genetic counseling of pregnant women..Materials and methods.
Helner, N. (Nadiya)   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Common variation in ISL1 confers genetic susceptibility for human congenital heart disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth abnormality and the etiology is unknown in the overwhelming majority of cases. ISLET1 (ISL1) is a transcription factor that marks cardiac progenitor cells and generates diverse multipotent ...
Coles, John G.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands

open access: yesNature Genetics, 2017
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality from birth defects. Here, exome sequencing of a single cohort of 2,871 CHD probands, including 2,645 parent–offspring trios, implicated rare inherited mutations in 1.8%, including a ...
S. Jin   +44 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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