Pediatric Cardiology News

Shorter vs. standard anticoagulation duration for children with provoked venous thromboembolism.

Children with ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion appear to benefit from mechanical thrombectomy, researchers reported at the International Stroke Conference.

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, although rare, is frequently undertreated, especially in non-high-income countries, and is sometimes diagnosed after atherosclerosis or aortic stenosis is already present, researchers reported.

Intent-to-treat survival among pediatric patients who have received a heart, liver or kidney transplant steadily improved over the past 3 decades, according to a study of more than 47,000 transplants.

Despite low absolute rates, researchers observed elevated odds of cardiac injury among male adolescents and young adults after messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccination in a large U.S. study, as well as a smaller study in Hong Kong.

Arterial stiffness in adolescence may be a causal risk factor for hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance in young adulthood, driving risk for incident type 2 diabetes, according to research published in Hypertension.

Most pediatric patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome also had evidence of myocardial injury, but functional recovery was quick with no adverse coronary outcomes, researchers reported.

A global healthy lifestyle intervention initiated in preschool settings was associated with improved health knowledge, attitude and habits and could potentially reduce CVD risk across the life span, data from a 10-year review show.

Healio and Cardiology Today have aggregated a list of recent updates on the CV impact of COVID-19 infection and vaccination.

Among young patients with provoked venous thromboembolism, shorter duration of anticoagulation is noninferior to current standard of care, according to the results of the Kids-DOTT randomized trial.