Most maternal cardiac disease in Western societies is now congenital in origin. This relates to the significant improvements in congenital cardiac surgery during the last years. Some patients will present for the first time in pregnancy with symptoms and learn that they have congenital heart disease. So all patients should have a detailed evaluation and appropriate counseling before pregnancy. ...

Regular consumption of vitamin D doses can improve heart function in patients with heart failure. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of vitamin D on the recovery process of neonates, infants, and children with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) following reconstructive cardiac surgery. Materials and Methods: In this sing...

Congenital heart diseases are the most common birth defects, occurring in more than 1% of newborns. The gene regulatory network of cardiac development has been revealed and some cases of congenital heart diseases have been shown to be associated with cardiac-specific gene mutations or related chromosomal abnormalities; however, almost all cases of congenital heart diseases are sporadic and the ...

Background/Aims Around one in 130 babies are born with some form of congenital heart defect. Advances treatment have resulted increasing numbers these individuals surviving complex disease; around 90% survive into adult life. In order for patients to receive high-quality care throughout their lives, it is imperative that nurses educated appropriately. This study explored the educational needs w...

Pediatric cardiac anesthesiology has evolved as a subspecialty of both pediatric and cardiac anesthesiology and is devoted to caring for individuals with congenital heart disease ranging in age from neonates to adults. Training in pediatric cardiac anesthesia is a second-year fellowship with variability in both training duration and content and is not accredited by the Accreditation Council on ...

background and objective: congenital heart disease (chd) is the most form of cardiovascular disease in children. chd have different presentations, from defects that progress asymptomatically to those with significant symptoms and high mortality. this study was performed to highlight the importance of signs and symptoms to diagnosis of chd neonates. materials & methods: this descriptive an...

conclusions in the children in this study, pacemaker accelerometers failed to meet physiological demands. results basal heart rates, maximal heart rates, and exercise tolerance were significantly lower in the children with pacemakers. age, sex, and body mass index had no effect on the heart rate slope during the exercise test. there was no significant difference between epicardial and endocardi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of congenital heart disease in babies with oesophageal atresia and its influence on outcome. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING The resident population of one health region. RESULTS A total of 153 babies with oesophageal atresia were identified from 509 975 live births (0.30 per 1000); 26 (17%) had cardiac defects. Survival of babies with normal hea...

conclusions parents were blood relatives in 33 (33%) of the patient cases, which is a very high rate. therefore, non-random mating is an important issue in developing countries that needs more attention results 100 patients with down syndrome and congenital heart disease were evaluated; 52 were female (52%) and 48 were male (48%). the average birth weight of the subjects was 2745 ± 523 (mean ± ...