Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week is observed each year during February 7-14 to promote awareness and education about congenital heart defects (CHDs). CHDs affect approximately one in 100 births every year in the United States and are the most common type of birth defect (1,2). Heart defects are conditions that persons live with throughout their lives; an estimated 1 million children and 1...

Background: Although the incidence of Ventricular Septal Defects (VSD) has been reported in other reports on Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) in the region. None has considered VSD as a separate entity. Other previous studies on Congenital Heart Disease in the region had also been for a short period of time (at best two years) with fewer sample sizes hence the need for this study which aims to do...

Copyright © 2017 Heart and Health Foundation of Turkey (TÜSAV). Published by Medikal Akademi. This article is licensed by Medikal Akademi and TÜSAV under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License. Eyileten Z., Uysalel A. Isolated ventricular septal defect in infants EJCM 2017; 05 (2): 27-33. Doi: 10.15511/ejcm.17.00227. Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the interventricular septum ...

Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of major congenital birth defect. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of CHD with serum levels of Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), Interleukin 6 (IL-6), and B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in infant and children. Materials and Methods The present study was conducted in Heshmat heart hospital and 17 Shahrivar...

OBJECTIVE To study the distribution of age, gender, and the relative frequency of congenital heart defects at the time of the diagnosis in Southern Yemeni children. METHODS This retrospective study focused on echocardiographic findings of 393 symptomatic children affected by congenital heart disease. It was conducted in the Echocardiography Department of a referral hospital for Aden city and ...

Aim: Congenital heart disease is the most common congenital problem in children. Presentation can vary from asymptomatic accidental finding to severe cardiac decompensation and death. Early recognition has great implications on prognosis. To study age, gender distribution and frequency of congenital heart disease in children referred to echocardiography in a single hospital in Zarqa. Methods: T...

Right atrial aneurysm is an extremity rare congenital heart defect. We report a case which was diagnosed during the early fetal stage and operated on in a 2 week old neonate. Following median sternotomy, aneurysmectomy was performed under a cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological examination of the resected atiral tissue showed a lipotomatous degeneration and reduction of the muscular element...

abstract hypoplastic right ventricular is a rare congenital heart disease. a few cases have been reported. we presented a case with hypoplastic right ventricular and multiple associated anomaly (ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis) in whom the main concern was whether biventricular repair or fontan type surgery would be the optimal management in this patient. ...

pulmonary arterial hypertension (pha) is a frequent complication of congenital heart disease (chd), most commonly in systemic-to-pulmonary shunt lesions. in patients with an uncorrected left-to right shunt, pah will end up to eisenmenger’s syndrome, which is contraindication of surgery. what about patients with moderate to severe pah, who do not have criteria of eisenmenger’s syndrome; immediat...

Development in medical intervention has significantly decreased the mortality rates for children with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) but among these survivors there occurs a unique pattern of neuro-developmental and neuropsychology impairment characterized social interaction impairment, impulsive Behavior, impaired executive functions. Presence behavioral problem is found high pediatric...