In the practice of pediatric cardiology, situations are possible when a child with congenital heart disease cannot be subjected to radical or even hemodynamic surgery. As rule, such severe defects combined other genetic anomalies, which ultimately lead palliative status newborn. This situa­tion is serious ethical and psychological challenge for medical workers in both antenatal postnatal period...

Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the basis for cardiology consultation and rationale different clinical conditions in pediatric population. Methodology: descriptive Pediatric Cardiology department, Peshawar institute of from June 2021 December 2021. A data 817 patients collected monthly log maintained by services, files admitted patients, echocardiographic laboratory reports. P...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Transthoracic echocardiography is the first-line non-invasive investigation for assessing pediatric patients' cardiac anatomy, physiology, and hemodynamics, based on its accessibility portability, but complete anatomic hemodynamic assessment time-consuming. The study aimed to determine accuracy reliability a new automat...

Improvements in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of congenital heart disease during infancy and childhood have resulted in an outstanding increase in the prevalence of these entities during adulthood. Congenital heart disease in the adult represents a new diagnostic challenge to the consultant cardiologist, unfamiliar with the anatomical and functional complexities of cardiac malformations....

background: 49, xxxxy syndrome is a rare sex chromosomal disorder, occurring in 1 per 85,000-100,000 male births. the classical phenotype is ambiguous genitalia, facial dysmorphism, mental retardation and a combination of cardiac, skeletal and other malformations. case: a two month-old boy with intrauterine growth restriction (iugr) and low birth weight, facial dysmorphism, clinodactyly in feet...

PURPOSE Diagnosis from lung biopsy or autopsy was performed in 445 patients with congenital (385) or acquired (60) heart disease from all over Japan. The purpose of this study is the presentation of these prospective data collections. METHODS Of the patients with congenital heart disease, 354 were biopsied to determine whether surgery was indicated. Decisions regarding surgery were based on t...

We read the article entitled “Importance of epicardial adipose tissue thickness measurement in obese adolescents, its relationship with carotid intima-media thickness, and echocardiographic findings” by Boyraz et al with interest1. They found a close relationship between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and some echocardiograhic parameters in obese adolescents to early detection of cardiac d...