Ascending aorta-right pulmonary artery shunt in infants and older patients with certain types of cyanotic congenital heart disease.

Ascending aorta-right pulmonary artery anastomosis. Clinical experience with thirty-five patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.

Cor Triatriatum Sinistrum Presenting as Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease A Rare Case Report

  Cor triatriatum is an acyanotic congenital heart disease. We present a rare case of cor triatriatum sinistrum in a 6-month-old female infant who was presented with cyanosis and failure to thrive. The 2D transthoracic echocardiography and the Doppler color flow imaging showed a proximal venous chamber communicating to the distal left atrium  through restrictive opening to the low-pressure, dis...

Indications, Results and Mortality of Pulmonary Artery Banding Procedure: a Brief Review and Five- year Experiences

Background Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) is a technique of palliative surgical therapy used by congenital heart surgeons as a staged approach to operative correction of congenital heart defects. Materials and Methods We report 5- year experiences from January 2011 to January 2016 of Imam Reza Hospital center (a tertiary referral hospital in Mashhad city, North East of Iran) that consist of 50 ...

A coarctation on the wrong aortic arch side.

A 3-month-old male infant, with diagnosis of a complex, cyanotic, congenital heart disease (double-outlet right ventricle, pulmonary stenosis, and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries, among other defects) and a double aortic arch (Fig. 1, [L, left; LCA, left carotid artery; LSA, left subclavian artery; R, right; RCA, right carotid artery; RSA, right subclavian artery]), had required a shunt from asc...

Association of Digoxin With Interstage Mortality: Results From the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial Public Use Dataset.

BACKGROUND Mortality for infants with single ventricle congenital heart disease remains as high as 8% to 12% during the interstage period, the time between discharge after the Norwood procedure and before the stage II palliation. The objective of our study was to determine the association between digoxin use and interstage mortality in these infants. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted a retrosp...