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...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography for indicating surgery without catheterization in patients with congenital heart disease through a prospective analysis and comparison of the echocardiographic diagnosis with the intraoperative findings, or invasive study, or both. METHODS From February 2000 to January 2001, 493 patients with congenital heart diseases indicate...

The aim of the study was to estimate prevalence of tricuspid dysplasia (TD) in dogs with respect to breed, age, sex, clinical signs, and echocardiographic findings and to compare this data with literature. TD was found in 15 dogs (6.5% of congenital cardiac disease) of 215 dogs with congenital heart defects. All dogs had right heart enlargement on thoracic radiographs, echocardiography, and ele...

Advances in the imaging techniques of the heart have fueled the interest in understanding of right heart pathology. Recently, speckle tracking echocardiography has shown to aid in understanding various right heart diseases and better management. Its role is well established in diagnosing right heart failure, pulmonary artery hypertension, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and congenita...

V entricular septal defect (VSD) is defined as a structural abnormality of the heart; defect in any portion of the ventricular septum with blood flow at the level of ventricles through this defect. It accounts 25% of congenital heart disease; 1 and remains one of the major causes of morbidity. 2 Ventricular septal defect is the most common lesion of congenital heart disease worldwide, 3 with a ...

AIM In this study, we aimed to evaluate the postnatal problems of infants of mothers with pregestational and gestational diabetes and the clinical properties of infants who were found to have congenital cardiac disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively examined the records of 337 newborns who were followed up with a diagnosis of infant of diabetic mother between January 2010 and Januar...

arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (arvd/c) is a congenital cardiac disease with myocardial involvement, most probably right ventricular (rv) dysfunction, accounting for 20% of sudden cardiac deaths. characterized by the fibro-fatty infiltration of the rv free wall, arvd/c presents in adolescents with ventricular arrhythmias and heart failure symptoms and as biventricular...