Bone changes in congenital cyanotic heart disease.

Bone changes in congenital cyanotic heart disease.

Twenty-five patients with congenital cyanotic heart disease were studied. Skiagrams of the skull (posteroanterior and lateral views), pelvis and lumbar spine (posteroanterior and lateral views), upper limb (posteroanterior view only), and x-ray of ankle joint including lower ends of tibia and fibula (posteroanterior and lateral views) were taken. Haemoglobin, packed cell volume, total leucocyte...

Hematologic Abnormalities in Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease Patients

Introduction:Patients with cyanotic heart disease may have an acceptable quality of life. However, they are invariably prone to several complications. The aim of this study is search about hematologic abnormalities in cyanotic congenital heart disease patients. Materials and Methods:  In this cross sectional study every cyanotic congenital heart disease patients who was referred to the adult co...

Cyanotic congenital heart disease.

The last 15 years have witnessed a very remarkable change in the attitude of the clinician towards cyanotic congenital heart disease. It is within the memory of many that it was the custom to make a simple diagnosis of congenital heart abnormality with cyanosis, and express the opinion that little or nothing could be done about it. Then there appeared the pioneer work of Abbott and others which...

Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease

Blood volume changes in cyanotic congenital heart disease.

IT IS WELL KNOWN that in polyeythemia rubra vera the total blood volume increases as the hematocrit level rises beyond approximately 55 per cent.1-2 This increase masks the extent of the polycythemia and insures that the plasma volume is not greatly diminished despite an increase in red cell volume to twice or three times the normal value. The changes in adults suffering from cyanotic congenita...