Introduction: Infective endocarditis is a rare, fatal ,with high morbidity in children, Since infective endocarditis in children was not assessed in our conditions so our study was attempted.   Material and Methods: This cross-sectional  study  include 19 patients less than 18 years old  with endocarditis   were hospitalized in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology( University of Mashhad...

Congenital complete heart block can occur in sibs with and without associated congenital heart defects.' This has been associated with different histological changes, but the ultimate cause has remained obscure. Recently there have been reports of an association between congenital heart block and maternal systemic lupus erythematosus.24 This report concerns two sisters with congenital complete ...

This editorial refers to ‘Congenital heart disease beyond the age of 60: emergence of a new population with high resource utilization,highmorbidity, andhighmortality’,byO.Turatel et al., on page 725 and ‘Recommendations for organization of care for adults with congenital heart disease and for training in the subspecialty of ‘Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease’ in Europe: a position paper of the ...

The prevalence of congenital heart disease in Europe was recently reported in two major papers. Data from a central database for 29 population-based registries in 16 countries showed a total prevalence of 8 per 1000. The overall detection rate of non-chromosomal congenital heart disease prenatally was only 20%, although 40% of severe cases were diagnosed before birth. It was estimated that each...

The use of sequential segmental analysis for describing congenital heart malformations was the method of assessment used in a prospective necropsy study covering Jutland, a well defined geographical and demographic area of Denmark. The study group was 1,154 children of whom 261 (22.6%) had a congenital heart malformation. The most common malformations were ductus arteriosus and ventricular sept...

the prospect of surgery can be frightening and more extensive surgery is included more anxious . knowledge of how to surgery reduces anxiety. hence,our goals are as follows :   what conditions can cause heart surgery? the majority of adults who should be considered for cardiac surgery , suffer from the disease of the heart valves or coronary artery disease or both.also, a few of them have conge...