INTRODUCTION Hearing impairment is the most frequent sensorial congenital defect in newborns and has increased to 2-4 cases per 1,000 live births. Sensory-neural hearing loss (SNHL) accounts for more than 90% of all hearing loss. This disorder is associated with other congenital disorders such as renal, skeletal, ocular, and cardiac disorders. Given that congenital heart diseases are life-threa...

Background Congenital Heart Disease and Rheumatic Heart Disease are the most common childhood cardiac disease encountered in developing countries. Objective To study the pattern and the prevalence of cardiac diseases, its age wise distribution and to determine their risk factors for mortality in children presented to Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital. Method A study of cardiac d...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess both the feasibility and potential role of transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography for the evaluation of adult patients with congenital heart disease. BACKGROUND The unrestricted views with depth perception provided by three-dimensional echocardiography with dynamic volume-rendered display may enhance visualization of cardiac structures and dete...

Background: We designed a cross-sectional study to determine electrocardiographic disorders in Down syndrome patients with congenitally normal hearts in a bid to predict fatal cardiac arrhythmia in the future. Materials and Methods: We investigated 60 children with DS without congenital abnormal hearts. Sixty healthy juveniles were also included in the study as a control group. Physical examina...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), where available, contributes to the informed management of patients with congenital heart disease. In contrast to echocardiography, CMR becomes easier as patients grow. It is versatile and gives unrestricted access to the heart and intrathoracic vessels, providing functional and structural information. Its relative strengths are discussed, and examples a...

With this document, we update the recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. The document focusses on the areas of interventional TOE, in particular transcatheter aortic, mitral, and left atrial appendage interventions, as well as on the role of TOE in infective endocarditis, adult congenital heart disease, and aortic disease.

Background Pulmonary hypertension carries significant morbidity and mortality in children. Early diagnosis management may improve outcomes children with pulmonary hypertension. Heart catheterization, a gold standard for diagnosing hypertension, is an invasive procedure not widely available. Echocardiography can be used as alternative diagnostic tool hypertension.
 Objective To determine th...

Congenital complete heart block (CCHB) is associated with high intrauterine and post-natal mortality. Prenatal detection management, as well appropriate delivery planning, may improve the outcomes in CCHB. We describe a rare case of CCHB that initially presented fetal ascites high-grade second-degree noted on echocardiography. The mother was to be positive for anti-SSA antibodies, treatment mat...

Childhood heart disease is a real public health problem. In our contexts, care remains major challenge. Doppler echocardiography the essential examination for diagnosis. The objective of study was to describe different clinical indications cardiac ultrasound in children and main pediatric diseases at Diourbel Heinrich Lübke Regional Hospital. This descriptive analytical retrospective spanning f...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : fahr's disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder of unknown cause characterized by idiopathic basal ganglia calcification that is associated with neuropsychiatric and cognitive impairment. no case of fahr's disease with associated cardiac conduction disease has been described in the literature to date. the objective of this case report ...