OBJECTIVES To investigate hypoxia and sleep disordered breathing in infants with congenital heart disease. METHODS Prospective study. In-hospital full polysomnography was performed on 14 infants with congenital heart disease, age 7 +/-1 months, and in 7 normal infants, age 10 +/-2 months. Congenital heart disease infants were classified as acyanotic (n=7) or cyanotic (n=7). RESULTS Nutritio...

A Univentricular Heart (UVH) is a rare congenital heart malformation. Prognosis without surgical intervention is considered to be poor and survival into the adulthood is unusual (1, 2). Its incidence being 1% to 4.3% of all congenital heart defects. Here we reported this rare congenital heart defect; hence it was worth reporting this interesting case.

BACKGROUND Kabuki syndrome (KS) is an entity of multiple congenital malformations with mental retardation with undetermined etiology. Congenital heart defects are one of the clinical manifestations of KS with insufficient elucidations. METHODS Literature of congenital heart defects associated with KS was comprehensively retrieved, collected and reviewed. The clinical features of the congenita...

background and aims. in the presence of certain systemic diseases, oral microflora may aggravate the condition of the disease. microbial population in the oral cavity especially with heart disease can increase the risk of bacterial endocarditis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of oral streptococcus mutans and the rate of caries in children suffering from heart disease. materials ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether accurate remote echocardiographic diagnosis of congenital heart disease could be achieved using a low cost telemedicine system. DESIGN Echocardiographic images obtained by a paediatrician from neonates suspected of having congenital heart disease were transmitted by a telemedicine link across two integrated service digital network (ISDN) lines to a regional paed...

Introduction:Patients with cyanotic heart disease may have an acceptable quality of life. However, they are invariably prone to several complications. The aim of this study is search about hematologic abnormalities in cyanotic congenital heart disease patients. Materials and Methods:  In this cross sectional study every cyanotic congenital heart disease patients who was referred to the adult co...

Background: One-third of all major congenital anomalies are Congenital heart disease (CHD) and Reported CHD prevalence increased over time and in Asian countries is more than western countries. Ectopia cordis (EC) is a rare congenital anomaly with an estimated incidence of 1:100 000 live births in developed countries. EC is characterized by abnormal heart placement outside the thorax, mostly on...

Congenital heart disease is diagnosed in 0.4% to 5% of live births and presents unique challenges to the pediatric anesthesiologist. Furthermore, advances in surgical management have led to improved survival of those patients, and many adult anesthesiologists now frequently take care of adolescents and adults who have previously undergone surgery to correct or palliate congenital heart lesions....

OBJECTIVE To analyze the frequency and prevalence of congenital heart defects in a tertiary care center for children with heart diseases. METHODS We carried out an epidemiological assessment of the first medical visit of 4,538 children in a pediatric hospital from January 1995 to December 1997. All patients with congenital heart defects had their diagnoses confirmed at least on echocardiograp...

There is no trustworthy estimate of the incidence of congenital heart disease as a whole, still less of tricuspid atresia. Doubtless many infants have died with tricuspid atresia, on whom no post-mortem examination was made, with merely a diagnosis of congenital heart disease or even unrelated diagnoses, since many of them succumb to infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia. The fi...