BACKGROUND In this study, we sought to analyze our experience in urgent surgical management for embolized cardiac septal and ductal occluder devices resulting from trans-catheter closure of atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus in childhood patient group. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 9 patients (aged 2-15 years) who underwent urgent surgery due to...

OIR GEORGE NEWMAN, Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education, has issued his Report on " The Health of the School Child in 1922 " (His Majesty's Stationery Office. Is. 6d.). In spite of financial restrictions which have arrested many developments proposed in recent legislation and the unparalleled conditions of unemployment there was no reil reaction in 1922, "and the machinery which Loca...

OBJECTIVE Ambient hypoxia impairs the airway epithelial Na transport, which is crucial in lung edema reabsorption. Whether chronic systemic hypoxemia affects airway Na transport has remained largely unknown. We have therefore investigated whether chronic systemic hypoxemia in children with congenital heart defect affects airway epithelial Na transport, Na transporter-gene expression, and short-...

BACKGROUND Microvascular angina (MVA) is characterized by anginal chest pain, an abnormal stress test, and normal coronary arteries on coronary angiography. Although the exact pathogenesis remains unclear, endothelial dysfunction is a contributing factor. To date, there exists no specific therapy for this disease. Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor improves the endothelial function and subsequently ...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to determine the reproducibility of measurements of the size and severity of myocardial defects from 99mTc sestamibi cardiac phantom studies performed on multiple different gamma camera systems. METHODS A total of 250 gamma camera systems were evaluated over a 5-y period as part of the validation process of multiple multicenter trials. Each laboratory perf...

Among heart irregularities, congenital pericardial defect is an unusual anomaly, and is typically left dominant. However, cases of right pericardial defect with heart herniation are extremely rare. This is a case of congenital right pericardial defect with herniation of the right ventricle free wall and right ventricular outflow tract. The patient is asymptomatic and refused further interventio...

Pulmonic stenosis unassociated with a ventricular septal defect of significant size is often a complex abnormality. The stenosis may be valvular, infundibular, or both, and may be associated with an atrial septal defect or even with a small ventricular septal defect. Preoperative studies cannot accurately predict these variations. The surgical approach selected for such patients should permit t...

on because of serious pulmonary hypertension associated with malformations considered unsuitable for complete repair (truncus arteriosus, single ventricle). The mortality in those with uncomplicated ventricular septal defect was low (5.5%), but was much higher in those with accompanying lesions or more complex abnormalities (63%). All have been under supervision since operation and most have im...

We read with a great interest the paper by Özyılmaz et al. (1) entitled “Heart rate variability improvement in children using transcatheter atrial septal defect closure” published in the Anatol J Cardiol 2015 Mar 4. The authors aimed to evaluate cardiac autonomic functions in children who underwent transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) using analysis of heart rate variability (HRV...

lthough transthoracic echocardiography is a well-established method of diagnosing vegetations in patients with infective endocarditis, its sensitivity for detection is relatively low and is operator-dependent. 1,2 We present a case of infective endocarditis in a patient with ventricular septal defect (VSD), diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A 17-year-old man previously know...