background: brain type natriuretic peptide (bnp) is a cardiac hormone that is secreted mainly by the ventricles in response to volume expansion and pressure load. it can predict post-operative complications after heart surgery in adults. we sought to investigate the prognostic value of bnp in children after heart surgery. methods: we measured the bnp serum levels in 96 children with congenital ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common malformations at birth. Due to the fact that the developmental windows at early stages close rapidly, the aim of this study was to determine the impact of congenital heart defects on the central nervous system at short and medium terms after applying traditional and quantitative electroencephalography techniques and a test of neurodevelopment. Twenty...

A survey conducted by cardiologists in Soweto, Johannesburg, provided an opportunity of assessing the frequency of congenital heart disease in black schoolchildren. Among 12,050 schoolchildren aged 2 to 18 years, 48 had a congenital heart defect, yielding a prevalence of 3.9 per 1000. Only in 2- to 6-year-old children did the prevalence exceed that of rheumatic heart disease. The distribution o...

IN PATIENTS with ventricular septal defect who are more than 3 or 4 years of age, an open corrective operation may be carried out with minimal risk if the lesion is not complicated by the presence of severe pulmonary hypertension. With surgical technics presently available, however, the closure of a ventricular septal defect in an infant or very young child is associated with considerable hazar...

BACKGROUND The 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome (22q11.2 deletion syndrome -22q11.2DS) refers to congenital abnormalities, including primarily heart defects and facial dysmorphy, thymic hypoplasia, cleft palate and hypocalcaemia. Microdeletion within chromosomal region 22q11.2 constitutes the molecular basis of this syndrome. The 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome occurs in 1/4000 births. The aim of ...

IN PATIENTS with ventricular septal defect who are more than 3 or 4 years of age, an open corrective operation may be carried out with minimal risk if the lesion is not complicated by the presence of severe pulmonary hypertension. With surgical technics presently available, however, the closure of a ventricular septal defect in an infant or very young child is associated with considerable hazar...

discussion children with congenital heart disease are at risk of acquiring gram-negative endocarditis even if they have not had other predisposing factors. case presentation in this study a ten-year-old boy with ventricular septal defect, who was not immune compromised and acquired klebsiella endocarditis is introduced. the patient had a favorable response to medical treatment and underwent a s...

conclusions in the children in this study, pacemaker accelerometers failed to meet physiological demands. results basal heart rates, maximal heart rates, and exercise tolerance were significantly lower in the children with pacemakers. age, sex, and body mass index had no effect on the heart rate slope during the exercise test. there was no significant difference between epicardial and endocardi...

Partial muscular inter-ventricular septal defect (VSD) or Pacman heart is a rare congenital or occasionally acquired anomaly. Concurrent Pacman heart and Shone's complex are extremely rare and have never been reported until now. We described a 37-year-old male patient with congenital Pacman heart, flail mitral valve (FMV), and a history of multiple congenital anomalies, including subvalvular ao...