Pediatric Cardiology News

ATLANTA — A speaker reported 100% 1-year survival and high freedom from pulmonary regurgitation, stenosis and reintervention in patients who underwent transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement.

Young children diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have a symptom burden and cardiac phenotype comparable with children presenting later in adolescence, suggesting similar management strategies are needed for preadolescent patients.

A digital medication adherence program with virtual video check-ins was associated with adolescent heart transplant recipients taking more of their medications as prescribed 6 months after the intervention, data from a pilot study show.

WASHINGTON — Childhood risk factors and the change in combined-risk z score between childhood and adulthood were associated with CV events in midlife, researchers reported.

Medtronic has announced a recall of the delivery catheter component in the company’s transcatheter pulmonary valve system due to risk for capsule break during use.

DENVER — Selective impairments in regional fetal brain growth predicted adverse development among infants with congenital heart disease, according to study findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

DENVER — A randomized controlled trial found that early targeted treatment with ibuprofen did not reduce mortality among 72-hour-old extremely preterm infants with a large patent ductus arteriosus, researchers reported here.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute announced it launched the CHOP Cardiovascular Institute, which is to be led by Daniel P. Kelly, MD, director of the University of Pennsylvania Cardiovascular Institute.

The American Heart Association has published a scientific statement on the association between COVID-19 infection and CV complications among children and young adults.

Charles D. Fraser Jr., MD, a congenital heart surgeon, has been named as the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Cardiovascular Health, according to a press release.