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Pediatric cardiac screening data warehouse created
The Cardiac Safety Research Consortium announced that a pediatric cardiac screening data warehouse has been created and prospective data collection is underway.
First miniature, adjustable stent implanted in 5-month-old with congenital heart defects
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.
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Baby receives world’s first combination heart, thymus tissue transplant
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.
Congenital heart defects may double risk for inpatient critical COVID-19 illness
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.
Nearly half of youth with obesity also have high BP
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.
FDA grants expanded indication to cryoablation catheters for pediatric arrhythmia
Medtronic announced it received expanded indication for its cardiac cryoablation focal catheters from the FDA for the treatment of pediatric atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia.
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Shorter vs. standard anticoagulation duration for children with provoked venous thromboembolism.
Thrombectomy may benefit children with stroke, large vessel occlusion
Children with ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion appear to benefit from mechanical thrombectomy, researchers reported at the International Stroke Conference.
Global analysis: Homozygous FH often undertreated
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.
Pediatric transplant recipients living longer
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.
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