Pediatric Cardiology News

Newborns with the congenital heart defect patent ductus arteriosus face many potential complications such as respiratory failure, acute kidney injury, necrotizing enterocolitis and HF. But closing it has been much easier said than done.

Among adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease, mental illness is a significantly more prevalent comorbidity in those who experienced at least two cardiac procedures during a 3-year period or had greater lesion complexity than in others.

While intraoperative methylprednisolone failed to show a significant benefit for mortality and morbidity outcomes in neonates undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass, it may yet yield some value for those undergoing palliative procedures.

Rivaroxaban and dabigatran reduced the risk for venous thromboembolism in children, according to three studies presented at the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Congress.

As a greater number of patients who had Fontan operations reach adolescence and adulthood, more information on how to manage those patients is needed, according to a scientific statement published by the American Heart Association in Circulation.

Intramyocardial injection of autologous umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cells into the right ventricular myocardium has shown to be both safe and feasible in pediatric patients undergoing stage II reconstruction for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, according to data from an open-label, prospective, nonrandomized phase 1 clinical trial published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.

Black children from disadvantaged neighborhoods were approximately half as likely to receive bystander CPR compared with while children, researchers reported.

The annual incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrests between 2008 and 2017 in the United States was an estimated 292,000 for adults and 15,200 for children, which was substantially higher than what was previously estimated, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Adults with congenital heart defects had elevated risk for developing cancer, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Low levels of vitamin D at birth or in early childhood were associated with elevated risk for high systolic BP in childhood and adolescence, researchers reported.