Pediatric Cardiology News

Cardiologists must emphasize the benefits of lifelong care early for adolescents and emerging adults with congenital heart disease, working with families to provide support based on individual needs, according to a new scientific statement.

The Cardiac Safety Research Consortium announced that a pediatric cardiac screening data warehouse has been created and prospective data collection is underway.

On Feb. 1, the first-in-human implantation of a novel miniaturized stent for infants and small children that can be expanded as they grew was performed at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

An infant believed to be the first to receive a combination heart transplant and allogeneic processed thymus tissue implant is gaining immune function 6 months after the procedures, potentially reducing the need for antirejection drugs.

Hospitalized patients with congenital heart defects are up to twice as likely to have critical outcomes of COVID-19 illness compared with hospitalized COVID-19 patients without heart defects, according to research published in Circulation.

Almost half of the children and adolescents who were enrolled in a pediatric weight management program for obesity also had high BP, according to research published in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.

Medtronic announced it received expanded indication for its cardiac cryoablation focal catheters from the FDA for the treatment of pediatric atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.

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.