OBJECTIVE This article aims to present updated therapeutic options for fetal congenital heart diseases. METHODS Data source for the present study was based on comprehensive literature retrieval on fetal cardiac interventions in terms of indications, technical approaches and clinical outcomes. RESULTS About 5% of fetal congenital heart diseases are critical and timely intrauterine interventi...

cor triatriatum is defined as a membrane within the left atrium, which might lead to restricted pulmonary venous return. diagnosis is usually achieved by echocardiography in early infancy. therapy of choice is the excision of the membrane. herein, successful correction of cor triatriatum in a 4-year-old girl is presented, and the clinical features, echocardiographic findings, and the surgical t...

pulmonary arterial hypertension (pha) is a frequent complication of congenital heart disease (chd), most commonly in systemic-to-pulmonary shunt lesions. in patients with an uncorrected left-to right shunt, pah will end up to eisenmenger’s syndrome, which is contraindication of surgery. what about patients with moderate to severe pah, who do not have criteria of eisenmenger’s syndrome; immediat...

conclusions no significant difference in reducing post bypass inflammation between preoperative steroid treatment and combined preoperative and intraoperative steroid administration reported and they had the same effects. results in both groups, no significant difference with variation of expression for il-6 (inflammatory factor) and il-10 (anti-inflammatory factor) in different times after byp...

conclusions there was no difference in clinical outcome after cardiac surgery when we administered an additional dose of methylprednisolone compared to a single dose of methylprednisolone. patients and methods sixty pediatric patients (age < 5years) undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery between september 2011-2012 at imam reza hospital-mashhad were randomly assigned to receive preoperative ...

the relationship between congenital heart disease (chd) and growth retardation is well documented. we investigated the growth condition of iranian children with several types of congenital heart disease (chd) and compared it with worldwide researches. growth condition was investigated in 469 patients with important chd aged from 1 month to 18 years. the patients were divided into two groups; in...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare congenital anomaly in which position of the heart and all abdominal viscera is reversed. Situs abnormalities usually go unnoticed but may be recognized by radiography or ultrasonography as an incidental finding or during evaluation for congenital heart diseases. We present such an extremely rare and to the best of our knowledge the third reported case of an inju...

Ectopia cordis is a rare congenital malformation in which the heart is located partially or totally outside the thoracic cavity. The estimated prevalence of ectopia cordis is 5.5-7.9 per million births and it comprises 0.1% of congenital heart diseases. Ectopia cordis is associated with other congenital heart diseases and various tissue and organ disorders. Common cardiac anomalies associated w...