Conduit repair for complex congenital heart disease

Congenital Heart Disease and Pregnancy

  ضایعات مادرزادی قلب خط مشی های گوناگونی از قبیل مراقبت دقیق بیماران باردار تا پیشگیری از بارداری و یا خاتمه آن را در زنان سن باروری ایجاب می کند. با پیشرفت روشهای درمان جراحی و دارویی در تصحیح و یا بر طرف کردن علایم بیماری مادرزادی، اکنون بسیاری از زنان مبتلا به مرحله باروری رسیده و باردار می شوند. اداره موفقیت آمیز این زنان در طی بارداری و بلافاصله بعد از زایمان به همکاری نزدیک بین متخصصین ...

Myocardial Self-Repair and Congenital Heart Disease

Video-assisted cardioscopy for intraventricular repair in congenital heart disease.

BACKGROUND Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical techniques have been widely adopted as a means to reduce surgical trauma. By adapting pediatric thoracoscopic instrumentation, we have developed a technique for video-assisted cardioscopy (VAC). We report our experience and describe the technical feasibility of VAC. METHODS Since June 1995, 409 consecutive patients underwent 431 intracardiac pr...

Aortic Valve Repair for Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Background—Aortic valve–preserving procedures have resulted in excellent outcomes in selected patients, particularly those with normal aortic valve leaflets and dilated aortic roots. However, several congenital heart lesions are associated with abnormal aortic valve leaflets. The long-term results of aortic valve repair for these lesions are not well defined. Methods and Results—We reviewed the...

Transplantation in complex congenital heart disease.

Three hundred and forty-five pediatric patients underwent orthotopic heart transplantation at Loma Linda University Medical Center throughout August 1999. Seventy-five percent of these patients had the diagnosis of congenital heart disease as the primary indication for transplantation. Two hundred and fifty-seven were infants and of these, 91 were neonates. Forty-nine percent had the primary di...