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Congenital Right Ventricular Diverticulum Associated With a Ventricular Septal Defect: A Rare Echocardiographic Finding

A neonate presented on the first day of life with tachypnea and poor feeding....

Echocardiographic Features of Right Heart Failure in Infancy and Childhood

In infants and children, right heart failure is most frequently a consequence of increased afterload (pulmonary hypertension),...

Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation in a 10-Year-Old Boy: Technical Aspects of Radiofrequency Ablation and Utility of Antiarrhythmic Therapy

Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF) is defined as spontaneous VF in the absence of structural heart disease....

Serum Electrolytes in Children with Neurocardiogenic Syncope Treated with Fludrocortisone and Salt

The combination of fludrocortisone and oral sodium chloride has been effective in the treatment of neurocardiogenic syncope in children....

Syncope Recurrence in Children: Relation to Tilt-test Results

ABSTRACT. Objectives. To examine the intermediate-term outcome of children with syncope and its relationship to tilt test....

Transient Dynamic Subaortic Stenosis in Premature Neonates After Patent Ductus Arteriosus Ligation

Abstract We describe 2 premature infants with PDA that did not respond to medical therapy and required surgical ligation. Both infants developed transient dynamic subaortic obstruction that resolved without specific therapy. This may have occurred due to sudden changes in the...

The Wandering Pacemaker: Intraperitoneal Migration of an Epicardially Placed Pacemaker and Femoral Nerve Stimulation

Abstract. A premature child with congenital complete heart block had an epicardial single-chamber pacemaker implanted at 2 days of age....

Beta Blockers in Marfan

It is not clear to what extent our experimental supplementation of the QRS represents reality, because under abnormal conditions inapparent QRS changes might accompany clinical T-wave changes....

Cardiovascular Transition to Extrauterine Life in Growth-Restricted Neonates: Relationship with Prenatal Doppler Findings

Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD., USA; Department of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Friedrich Wilhelm University, Bonn, Germany....

Chaotic Atrial Tachycardia

Stent placement in an superior vena cava obstruction with a decreased gradient documented by TEE....