Jones, R. W. A., Baumer, J. H., Joseph, M. C., and Shinebourne, E. A. (1976). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 51, 667. Arterial oxygen tension and response to oxygen breathing in differential diagnosis of congenital heart disease in infancy. Arterial oxygen tension was measured from radial artery samples in 276 infants referred for cardiological investigation. Values obtained during air breat...

We report the case of a 39-year-old male with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease undergoing emergency craniotomy for a cerebral abscess. Maintenance of intraoperative hemodynamic stability and adequate tissue oxygenation during anesthesia may be challenging in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease. In this case, we decided to perform the surgery as an awake craniotomy after int...

Gout complicating cyanotic congenital heart disease is infrequently recognized. Its occurrence in blood dyscrasias associated with hyperuricamia is well documented (Gliickmann, 1910; Weber, 1934; Barr et al., 1950; Hickling, 1953). In polycythemia rubra vera, gout occurs in 5 to 9 per cent of patients (Tinney et al., 1945; Videbaek, 1950; Lawrence, 1955) and the complication has been referred t...

BACKGROUND/AIM Ghrelin has effects on nutrient intake and growth. The cause of growth retardation in congenital heart disease is multifactorial. The aim of the present study is to investigate the ghrelin in congenital heart disease and the association of ghrelin with TNF-alpha and IL-6. Materials and methods. We measured serum ghrelin, TNF-alpha, and IL-6 levels using specific immunoassay in 68...

An abnormal tendency to post-operative hmorrhage may occur in patients with severe cyanotic congenital heart disease (Blalock, 1948). In preliminary findings by Somerville and McDonald (1960) the thromboplastin generation test showed evidence of defective blood coagulation in these patients. Blood coagulation has been further investigated in patients with cyanotic and acyanotic congenital heart...

background: hypoalbuminemia may be caused by liver disease, nephrotic syndrome, burns, protein-losing entropathy, malnutrition, and metabolic stress. alterations in albumin in metabolic stress such as cardiac surgery have been previously investigated. we studied serum albumin concentration in children with congenital heart disease and also the association of hypoalbuminemia with mortality and m...

Arterial oxygen tension was measured from radial artery samples in 276 infants referred for cardiological investigation. Values obtained during air breathing in infants with congenital heart disease showed considerable overlap between 'cyanotic' and 'acyanotic' groups, and are of limited diagnostic use. By contrast, values obtained while breathing oxygen in concentrations of over 80%, measured ...