The detailed profile of congenital heart diseases in 254 children with Down syndrome in Saudi Arabia
The Cardiothoracic SurgeonBackground Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality in humans. It is associated with several congenital anomalies, including a spectrum of congenital heart diseases.
Naif Alkhushi
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Secundum atrial septal defect in adults: a practical review and recent developments
Netherlands Heart Journal, 2015 Secundum atrial septal defect (ASDII) is a common congenital heart defect that causes shunting of blood between the systemic and pulmonary circulations. Patients with an isolated ASDII often remain asymptomatic during childhood and adolescence.
J. Kuijpers, B. Mulder, B. Bouma
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Glucocorticoids for treating paediatric pulmonary hypertension: A novel use for a common medication [PDF]
, 2017 Laboratory investigations have shown the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension and improvement after anti-inflammatory drugs.
Aggarwal, Manish, Grady, Ronald M
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Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2016 The article presents the published data on the prevalence, the main clinical manifestations, modern methods of early neonatal and postnatal diagnosis, treatment and prognosis by atrial septal defect — the congenital malformation of cardiovascular system.
K.A. Kalashnikova, N.O. Nikitina
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Challenges in treatment of postinfarction ventricular septal defect and heart failure
Vojnosanitetski pregled, 2015 Introduction. Acquired ventricular septal defect (VSD) is uncommon, but serious mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction with poor outcome and high mortality rate in surgically or medically treated patients. Case report. We report a 58-year-old male patient admitted to our hospital six days following acute inferior myocardial ...
Mangovski, Ljupco +5 more
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Recurrent lung nodules as a presentation of ventricular septal defect‐related endocarditis
Respirology Case Reports, 2019 Infective endocarditis is an uncommon microbial infection of the endocardial surface of the heart. Patients with structural heart disease, such as a ventricular septal defect, are at higher risk for infective endocarditis and clinicians must have a high ...
Adam Trytell +4 more
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Centered Partition Process: Informative Priors for Clustering
, 2019 There is a very rich literature proposing Bayesian approaches for clustering starting with a prior probability distribution on partitions. Most approaches assume exchangeability, leading to simple representations in terms of Exchangeable Partition ...
Dunson, David B. +3 more
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Fatal postoperative Candida glabrata septicemia in a child with congenital heart disease
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2009 The incidence of candidemia has been reported to be high in some cardiovascular surgery units. Congenital heart disease has been considered a risk factor for acquisition of candidemia.
Vasant Baradkar +2 more
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Frequency and Diversity of Congenital Heart Disease in Children in Northern Iran [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Basic Research, 2022 Background and objectives: One of the leading causes of neonatal death is congenital abnormalities. The most prevalent congenital condition in the world is congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects around one-quarter of all live newborns.
Mohsen Ebrahimi, Hassan Esmaeili
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The inferior caval vein draining into the left atrial cavity : a rare case [PDF]
, 2011 The inferior vena cava (IVC) draining into the left atrium (LA) is exceedingly rare in the setting of the usual atrial arrangement (situs solitus).
McCarthy, Karen +4 more
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