BACKGROUND Technetium-labeled agents, which are most often used for assessing myocardial perfusion in myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS), are cleared by the liver and excreted by the biliary system. Spillover from extra-cardiac activity into the myocardium, especially the inferior wall, might conceal defects and lower the diagnostic accuracy of the study. The objective was to determine rul...

In man there are three well-known syndromes that are associated with an extra autosome. These are Down's syndrome (mongolism) with 21-trisomy (Lejeune, Gautier, and Turpin, 1959; Jacobs et al., 1959; Book, Fraccaro, and Lindsten, 1959), 13-15 trisomy (Patau et al., 1960), and 17-18 trisomy (Edwards et al., 1960; Smith et al., 1960). There have been five previously reported patients with a small...

From October 1977 to December 1988, 108 neonates born with esophageal atresia (EA) and/or a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) were treated at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children. An incidence of I :4000-4500 live births was noted. 1I2.4% had the common- type anomaly, 5.5% had pure esophageal atresia, and 6.5% had an H-type anomaly. 2.8% had upper and lower fistulae and 2.8% had uppe...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether offering cardiac screening to relatives of patients with left ventricular outflow tract obstructions (LVOTOs) would be justified. BACKGROUND LVOTOs have been recognised as a group of congenital heart diseases with 'high heritability'. One of the LVOTOs, the bicuspid aortic valve, is often asymptomatic, but has become known to be associated with sudden, unexpect...

Cardiac physiologic changes during pregnancy may cause risky delivery in patients with congenital cardiac anomalies. In this case, we present the anesthesia management emergency cesarean section a pregnant woman c-TGA who develop tamponade and sudden death risk due to pericardial effusion.

Anorectal malformations (ARM) are associated with a myriad of congenital anomalies. The prevalence rates of associated anomalies range from 20% to 80%, commonest being urogenital anomalies. Other important associations and syndromes include Down syndrome and VACTERL (vertebral, anorectal, cardiac, trachea-esophageal, renal, limb) anomalies [1]. ARM has rarely been described in association with ...

Low birth weight (LBW) is a risk factor for mortality in neonatal and infant heart surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the contemporary outcomes and risk factors of cardiac surgery in low weight babies. The records of 75 consecutive infants weighing <2.5 kg having heart surgery were reviewed. The median weight was 2100 g (range 800-2500 g) and median age was 11 days (range 2-86 ...

developing supernumerary limbs is a rare congenital condition that only a few cases have been documented. depending on the cause and developmental conditions, they may be single, multiple or complicated, and occur as a syndrome or associated with other anomalies. polymelia is defined as the presence of extra limb(s) which have been reported in human, mouse, chicken, calf and lamb. it seems that...