background: congenital heart disease causes large expenditures as well as mental pressures for the parents and, consequently, endangers the mothers’ quality of life and self efficacy. thus, the present study aimed to determine the effect of educational program on the quality of life and self efficacy of the mothers of the infants with congenital heart disease. methods: the present randomized co...

Background: Congenital heart diseases are the second group of congenital anomalies in infants. These disorders are a major cause of death in the first year of a child's life. Early detection helps to treat these diseases better. In this study cardiology consultations of hospitalized infants in the neonatal intensive care unit were evaluated. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, two hundred ...

" The doctor says she's got a bad heart," said a mother, " but it's us who suffer, not her." How much does the family suffer? Firstly, we wanted to determine whether congenital heart disease has an appreciable impact on the family of the affected child. Secondly, if it has, to assess how the impact is influenced by the cardiac disorder, by the characteristics of the family, and by medical manag...

Background: Neonates are at high risk for health problems. Without proper treatment, those problems might lead to either disability or death. Congenital heart disease causes respiratory distress syndrome (breathing syndrome), with symptoms of dyspnea, cyanosis, and arrest due pathological changes in the that disrupt blood flow cycle throughout body. This study aimed discover nursing care Baby M...

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 medic...

While trisomy 21 is a common genetic disorder in singletons, the incidence among identical twins is very rare, occurring in approximately 1-2 per 1000 twin gestations. Trisomy 21 is associated with high incidence of congenital heart defects, and commonly occurs with ventricular septal defects (VSDs). Physiologic burden of VSDs depends on prevalence of anatomic and other circulatory factors. A c...